Felix

“One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.”
― Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

“Om te overleven moet je jezelf wijsmaken dat de werkelijkheid anders is dan-ie is. Dat lukt en je overleeft. Maar hoe kom je er dan nog achter wat die werkelijkheid was? En is?”
― Joris Luyendijk, Het zijn net mensen: Beelden uit het Midden-Oosten

“standard practice in California, where a married couple will go to the grocery store together in separate Priuses, just so each person can be seen saving the planet.   Unfortunately,”
― Doug DeMuro, Plays With Cars

“One man's imagined community is another man's political prison.”
― Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger