Yehya Chali

“The lesson of the California Roll is simple - people don't want something truly new, they want familiar done differently.”
― Nir Eyal

“Mirovên geşbîn û reşbîn, her du jî ji bo civakê pêwîst in. Geşbîn balafirê didahêne; reşbîn sîwana rizgariyê.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Now there are two "functions" in a democracy: The specialized class, the responsible men,
carry out the executive function, which means they do the thinking and planning and understand the common interests. Then, there is the bewildered herd, and they have a function in democracy too. Their function in a
democracy, he said, is to be "spectators," not participants in action. But they have more of a function than that, because it's a democracy. Occasionally they are allowed to lend their weight to one or another member of the specialized class. In other words, they're allowed to say, "We want you to be our leader"
or "We want you to be our leader." That's because it's a democracy and not a
totalitarian state. That's called an election. But once they've lent their weight
to one or another member of the specialized class they're supposed to sink back and become spectators of action, but not participants. That's in a properly functioning democracy.”
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“I'm excellent at faking being okay with things, even when inside my brain there is a tiny screaming gnome who is definitely not okay.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This