Frederick Reed

“In a New York where people are reconceived as consumers, not citizens, it is most profitable to keep everyone moving and disconnected. This is what the hyper-globalized, ultracompetitive city looks and feels like. I saw the perfect word for it scrawled on a wall in the East Village: blandalism. Sleepwalking inside digital bubbles, the iZombies hustle through the city without looking. And you can’t really have compassion for a thing—or a person—without beholding it.”
― Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

“Let’s do what we can. Let’s be a small light in a dark world.”
― Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Our job is to try to save the world, and failing that, we can at least try to not be part of the problem.”
― Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World