Chris

“The punishment we suffer, if we refuse to take an interest in matters of government, is to live under the
government of worse men.”
― Plato, The Republic

“If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner’s and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only . .”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“... Radio. Television. Things began to have mass.'
Montag sat in bed, not moving.
'And because they had mass, they became simpler,' said Beatty. 'Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple population. Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort
of paste pudding norm, do you follow me?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Someone said I had smiled. But to my father, it was not a smile, just a small beautiful moment because he had not lost me forever.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban