Allyse Freeman

“They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune