Michelle

“De onmacht die je voelt wanneer je een pen vasthoudt in de hand waarmee je normaal gesproken niet schrijft, in mijn geval mijn linkerhand; vergelijkbaar met de onmacht die je kunt voelen in sociale situaties, ruzies voorop. Je bent juist uitgerust, fysiek gezien klopt de situatie, maar hoe beweeg je je voort, hoe druk je je uit zonder te gaan trillen?”
― Lieke Marsman, Het tegenovergestelde van een mens

“Silence isn’t neutrality; it is supporting the status-quo.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Sapiens rule the world because only they can weave an intersubjective web of meaning: a web of laws, forces, entities and places that exist purely in their common imagination. This web allows humans alone to organise crusades, socialist revolutions and human rights movements.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow