Hartley

“Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die ?”
― Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

“Faster cars, wider roads, and fancier fires do not make better picnics. Nor do cold wars produce warm hearts.”
― William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History

“But the frontier in this meaning was a process of becoming, not of being, and hence substituted motion for structure as its end. Motion as a substitute for structure is possible only so long as there is unlimited room to move in. When confined without the discipline provided by an ideal, such social motion produces aimlessness or chaos—or perhaps the final ordering of some utopia.”
― William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History

“The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements