patrizia

“Eli was a scene kid, the type that was just a little too into Panic! at the Disco to be trusted.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Rather than asking how the earth’s surface can be preserved for people, they ask how reservations necessary for the survival of people can be established on an earth that has been reshaped for the sake of industrial outputs.”
― Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity

“Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. The man who claims a seat in a faster vehicle insists that his time is worth more than that of the passenger in a slower one. Beyond a certain velocity, passengers become consumers of other people’s time, and accelerating vehicles become the means for effecting a net transfer of life-time.”
― Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity

“Ich habe auf Dich gewartet, sagte die Frau. Ich habe Dich nicht gekannt, aber man kann auch auf Jemanden warten, den man noch nie gesehen hat.”
― Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Eisbären