Jonell Galloway

“In an article titled "The Ex-Communists," she analyzed how these McCarthy loyalists had simply switched allegiances. Instead of demanding communism as they had earlier, they now called for unconditional loyalty and cooperation in denouncing others for the sake of freedom and democracy. They still had a cause, just a different one from before. The new cause, the right cause, she continued, had a totalitarian catch to it. By turning democracy "into a cause," something that would arrive in the future and to which the present must be devoted, the present became unfree. The idea of futurity destroyed the present moment.
How could one escape this destruction of the present by fear of the future....?”
― Marie Luise Knott, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

“These—the shared, simple acts of everyday life—are the realities on which international understanding can be built.”
― Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

“He felt at peace only in the hour before dawn, when the darkness seemed to give way slowly to a mist, and it was at this hour that he would wake and sit by his window.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

“If you deconstruct Italy, you will in the end see a grapevine, a tomato and a small boy hammering a shard of marble.”
― Pietros Maneos