Sam Johnson

“To live a free life, it is not enough that we have the right to freedom. We must have access to the material resources as well as the forms of education that allow us to pursue our freedom and to “own” the question of what to do with our time. What belongs to each one of us—what is irreducibly our own—is not property or goods but the time of our lives.”
― Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

“We redefine what it means to be a good person as someone who is trying to be better, as opposed to someone who is allowing themselves to believe in the illusion that they are always a good person.”
― Dolly Chugh, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych