Christopher Barclay

“Increasingly, municipalities (and companies contracted by municipalities) are behaving like businesses, viewing residents as potential sources of revenue, as well as viewing the generation of revenue via fines as a form of productivity.”
― Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

“I spit on fools who fail to include breasts in their metaphysics, // Star-gazers who have not enumerated them among the moons of the earth”
― Charles Simic, New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

“What I learned was more than sufficient to impress upon me the horror, the real danger, and the utter insanity of thermonuclear warfare, which threatens everyone on earth. Our reports, and the conferences where we discussed a strategic thermonuclear strike on a potential enemy, transformed the unthinkable and monstrous into a subject for detailed investigation and calculation ... I could not stop thinking about this, and I came to realize that the technical, military, and economic problems are secondary; the fundamental issues are political and ethical. Gradually, subconsciously, I was approaching an irrevocable step—a wide-ranging public statement on war and peace and other global issues.”
― Andrei Sakharov

“He sallied forth, having told all those bally lies with the clear, blue, pop-eyed gaze of a young child.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves