Nancy

“The very soul! What does a kingdom pretend to do? Save the values of the community—regulate compromise—improve the quality of the commonwealth! In other words, protect the power of the people in power and keep the others down. By common agreement of course, so the fiction goes. And they do pretty well. We’ll give them that.”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“Evil was predictable; it cloaked itself in righteousness, convinced its enemies must be punished.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

“Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”
― Studs Terkel

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind