Darya Saudade

“In this way, moral formation is not individual; it is relational. Character is not something you build sitting in a room thinking about the difference between right and wrong and about your own willpower. Character emerges from our commitments. If you want to inculcate character in someone else, teach them how to form commitments—temporary ones in childhood, provisional ones in youth, permanent ones in adulthood. Commitments are the school for moral formation. When your life is defined by fervent commitments, you are on the second mountain.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The fact that political efforts of dissent and critique are often labeled as “violent” by the very state authorities that are threatened by those efforts is not a reason to despair of language use. It means only that we have to expand and refine the political vocabulary for thinking about violence and the resistance to violence, taking account of how that vocabulary is twisted and used to shield violent authorities against critique and opposition. When the critique of continuing colonial violence is deemed violent (Palestine), when a petition for peace is recast as an act of war (Turkey), when struggles for equality and freedom are construed as violent threats to state security (Black Lives Matter), or when “gender” is portrayed as a nuclear arsenal directed against the family (anti-gender ideology), then we are operating in the midst of politically consequential forms of phantasmagoria.”
― Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind

“بپاخیزید، همچون شیران پس از خواب
در شماری شکست‌ناپذیر،
زنجیرهای خود را همچون شبنم به زمین بیفکنید
که در خواب بر شما افتاده بود-
شما بسیارید - آنها اندک‌اند.


پرسی شلی”
― پرسی شلی