Travis Sundwall

“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”
― Hannah Arendt

“The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

“The mere fact that a group of people in the past agreed to a constitution is not enough to make that constitution just.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do

“Do you tell other people when you realize they were right?”
― Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often