Laertes

“Death is a guillotine blade hanging over our heads, reminding us every second of every day that this life we treasure so much is no more important to the universe than those of the two hundred thousand insects each of us kills with the front of our car every year.”
― Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life ― A Self-Sufficiency Guide for Surviving a Crisis

“Security was a myth, a grand lie we told ourselves to mask the jarring reality of the human condition: that the social contract was written in sand, not stone, and it could be blown away at any time, by anyone with sufficient breath his lungs.”
― Brad Parks, Say Nothing

“Were the Australian extinction an isolated event, we could grant humans the benefit of the doubt. But the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Our Society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. It's an inevitability tourists can't help but realize when visiting Mayan ruins, Egyptian ruins, Roman ruins. How long will it be before someone is visiting American ruins?”
― Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life ― A Self-Sufficiency Guide for Surviving a Crisis