Stephanie Silver

“Orwell is justly admired for his grasp of the essential truth that tyranny is incompatible with liberty. There is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship, he taught us, whether it be a dictatorship of the left or of the right, or the white man's burden of imperial dictatorship.”
― Laura Beers, Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-first Century, Library Edition

“This is a terrible place to die in."
"Where is a good one?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Power kills, and absolute power kills absolutely.” The less restraint on power within a government, Rummel found, the more likely that government will act on the whims or psychologically generated darker impulses of its leaders to wage war on foreign governments.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II

“When you have so many other people doing things for you professionally and personally, you stop taking responsibility for any of it.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism