Caleb Ringger

“Once you cuddled 'em and kissed 'em,
But we're bringin' down Their system,
And it isn't a resistance, it's a war....”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Nothing perhaps distinguishes modern masses as radically from those of previous centuries as the loss of faith in the last judgment: the worst have lost their fear, and the best have lost their hope.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“In reply to a minister's inquiry about the distinguishing doctrine of Mormonism, Joseph told him that "we believe the Bible, and they do not." It was the power of the Bible that Joseph and the visionaries sought to recover. Not getting it from the ministry, they looked for it themselves.”
― Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

“It is almost impossible even now to describe what actually happened in Europe on August 4, 1914. ... The first explosion seems to have touched off a chain reaction in which we have been caught ever since and which nobody seems to be able to stop. Nothing which was being done, no matter how stupid, no matter how many people knew and foretold the consequences, could be undone or prevented. Every event had the finality of a last judgment, a judgment that was passed neither by God nor by the devil, but looked rather like the expression of some unredeemably stupid fatality.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism