Aia

“After turning it in her mind for some time, she came to the conclusion, that she had been taking part in a great drama, which was, in itself, but one great system of robbery and wrong. 'Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.' True, she had not received labor from others, and stinted their pay, as she felt had been practised against her; but she had taken their work from them, which was their only means to get money, and was the same to them in the end. For instance–a gentleman where she lived would give her a dollar to hire a poor man to clear the new-fallen snow from the steps and side-walks. She would arise early, and perform the labor herself, putting the money into her own pocket. A poor man would come along, saying she ought to have let him have the job; he was poor, and needed the pay for his family. She would harden her heart against him, and answer–'I am poor too, and I need it for mine.' But, in her retrospection, she thought of all the misery she might have been adding to, in her selfish grasping, and it troubled her conscience sorely; and this insensibility to the claims of human brotherhood, and the wants of the destitute and wretched poor, she now saw, as she never had done before, to be unfeeling, selfish and wicked.”
― Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“Whereas representation attempts
to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum. Such would be the successive phases of the image:
it is the reflection of a profound reality;
it masks and denatures a profound reality;
it masks the absence of a profound reality;
it has no relation to any reality whatsoever;
it is its own pure simulacrum.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“ხულიგნობის ბედნიერება კიდევ სულ სხვა რამეა, პან მარიუშ! ხულიგანი ერთადერთია, ვისაც სისტემა ვერ ერევა. გახსოვთ ტრიუფოს `ოთხასი დარტმის~ ფინალი? ბიჭი ზღვის ცარიელ სანაპიროზე რო გარბის? ეგეც არაფერი, თუ არ გახსოვთ. დაივიწყეთ! ხულიგნობის ბედნიერება არაფერში არ გაიცვლება, ფულით ვერ იყიდი... სანამ ხულიგნობის ჩადენა შეგვიძლია, კარგად არის ჩვენი საქმე... მერე, როცა აღარ შეგვიძლია, უკვე აღარ არის საქმე კარგად... მერე პრობლემები იწყება.”
― არჩილ ქიქოძე, სამხრეთული სპილო