Jacob Vander Weit

“It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“The first rule of science, Captain, is to doubt appearances and to seek substances in their stead.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black