Daria

“All of this upends the usual story that we’re told about the rise of capitalism. This was hardly a natural and inevitable proccess. There was no gradual ‘transition’, as people like to assume, and it certainly wasn’t peaceful. Capitalism rose on the back of organised violence, mass impoverishment, and the systematic destruction of self-sufficient subsistence economies. It did not put an end to serfdom; rather, it put an end to the progressive revolution that had ended serfdom. Indeed, by securing virtually total control over the means of production, and rendering peasants and workers dependent on them for survival, capitalists took the principles of serfdom to new extremes.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“The boy's yearning for power compelled him to admire and submit to it wherever he encountered it.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now : Dispatches from an Alternative Present- Yanis Varoufakis

“To be an egoist refers not only to my behavior but to my character. It means: that I want everything for myself; that possessing, not sharing, gives me pleasure; that I must become greedy because if my aim is having, I am more the more I have; that I must feel antagonistic toward all others: my customers whom I want to deceive, my competitors whom I want to destroy, my workers whom I want to exploit. I can never be satisfied, because there is no end to my wishes; I must be envious of those who have more and afraid of those who have less. But I have to repress all these feelings in order to represent myself (to others as well as to myself) as the smiling, rational, sincere, kind human being everybody pretends to be.”
― Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep