Kate

“She is a character in a novel who reads the other characters as characters and rewrites them as people.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“It's always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody else's expense”
― Milton Friedman

“The French Revolution sought to replace one religion with another: hence its fanaticism and exterminatory zeal. But the new religion of the nation was demonic, fraught with contradiction and self-hatred, with no power to survive. It quickly gave way to the Napoleonic project of empire, through which violence was externalized and a rule of law re-established at home”
― Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat