Charles Wilson

“William of Malmesbury wrote that ‘satisfied with a child of either sex, [the queen] ceased having issue’.”
― Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

“The spreading influence of the Church had affected the domestic arrangements of all, including priests and princes, setting bastard stock in a separate, inferior category to children born in wedlock.”
― Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

“The revolution begins by asking: what sort of promises do free men and women make to one another, and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world?”
― David Graeber, Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination

“Man, who has not been granted the gift of undoing, who is always an un-consulted heir of other men’s deeds, and who is always burdened with a responsibility that appears to be the consequence of an unending chain of events rather than conscious acts, demands an explanation and interpretation of the past in which the mysterious key to his future destiny seems to be concealed.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism