Julie

“I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.”
― Lu Hsun

“在社会关系中，每个名都含有一定的责任和义务。君、臣、父、子都是这样的社会关系的名，负有这些名的人都必须相应地履行他们的责任和义务。这就是孔子正名学说的含义。”
― 冯友兰Feng Youlan, 中国哲学简史 Brief History of Chinese Philosophy (国民阅读经典)

“So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the parties we vote for less—but because we came to dislike the opposing party more. Even as hope and change sputter, fear and loathing proceed.”
― Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

“The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who activate our identities, because it is biased toward and dependent on the fraction of the country with the most intense political identities.”
― Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized