Rachel

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“We need to say no to the neoliberal fatalism that we are witnessing at the end of this century, informed by the ethics of th emarket, an ethics in which a minority makes most profits against the lives of majority. In other words, those who cannot compete, die This is a perverse ethics that, in fact, lacks ethics. I insist on saying that I continue to be a human... I would then remain the last educator history as possibility we can demystify the evil in this perverse fatalism that characterizes the neoliberal discourse in the end of this century.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed