Eric Wingenbach

“It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate. If you want to feel ten feet tall and as though you could run a hundred miles without stopping, hate beats pure cocaine any day. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half-starved nation with hatred and nothing more. Imagine that.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“It is an unwavering rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start thinking, afterwards, it might be too late.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“We don’t need more information. We don’t need bigger brains. All that is required is that we become less selfish than we are.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

“Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely — yet not entirely — forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals