Martin

“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.”
― William Hazlitt

“People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.”
― James Meek, The Heart Broke In

“We must pass through acute loneliness to learn that we are not alone.”
― Sandra Lee Dennis, Love and the Mystery of Betrayal

“if we consider the total growth of the US economy in the thirty years prior to the crisis, that is, from 1977 to 2007, we find that the richest 10 percent appropriated three-quarters of the growth. The richest 1 percent alone absorbed nearly 60 percent of the total increase of US national income in this period. Hence for the bottom 90 percent, the rate of income growth was less than 0.5 percent per year.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century