Francesca

“...most people who do a great deal of harm in the world are protected against the knowledge that they do so.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

“My lady, I did not think you could answer it, when I took you from your home without your leave, and set value only on your gift. But I am answered truly. You have given fair return for insult thrice over and set your worth: higher than my life and all my kingdom and all who live therein, and though you send my people to the fire, I can claim no debt to repay. It is justly done.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“As Orwell noted, a population busy working, even at completely useless occupations, doesn’t have time to do much else.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“We are told that the police are the bringers of justice. They are here to help maintain social order so that no one should be subjected to abuse. The neutral enforcement of the law sets us all free. This understanding of policing, however, is largely mythical. American police function, despite whatever good intentions they have, as a tool for managing deeply entrenched inequalities in a way that systematically produces injustices for the poor, socially marginal, and nonwhite.”
― Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing