Victor

“To the extent that threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own activities, the government has organized a protection racket. Since governments themselves commonly timulate, or even fabricate threats of external war, and since the repressive and extractive activities of governments often constitute the largest current threats to the livelihoods of their own citizens, many governments operate in essentially the same ways as racketeers.”
― Charles Tilly

“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

“London isn't a place at all. It's a million little places.”
― Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.”
― Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World