Erik

“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

Socrates taught us: 'Know thyself!”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain