Maru Kun

“There's an awful lot you can find in the press. If you do what you really ought to do, start by reading every article from the end, back to the front; most of the lies are up in the front. Turns out there's a lot of stuff back there.”
― Noam Chomsky

“So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms of law as one of their instruments. Wicked men will enact wicked rules which others will enforce. What surely is most needed in order to make men clear sighted in confronting the official abuse of power, is that they should preserve the sense that the certification of something as legally valid is not conclusive of the question of obedience, and that, however great the aura of majesty or authority which the official system may have, its demands must in the end be submitted to a moral scrutiny.”
― H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law

“I would have loved to buy a hot dog from her, just to watch her squeezing the ketchup and mustard from the plastic bottles over the sausage,”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Dancing in the Dark

“Why would someone with such red cheeks who liked to go on long walks in the forest have such a big cock? I wondered. What would he do with it?”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Dancing in the Dark