Kevin J. Rogers

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).”
― Michel Foucault

“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”
― Junius, Junius: including letters by the same writer under other signatures : To which are added his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes : and his private letters to Mr. H. S. Woodfall

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness