Setayesh Dashti

“A nationalist, “although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,” wrote Orwell, tends to be “uninterested in what happens in the real world.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

“Qu'importent nos ennuis, nos défaillances, la lenteur d'exécution et le dégoût de l'oeuvre ensuite, si nous sommes toujours en progrès  ! Si nous montons, qu'importe le but  ! Si nous galopons, qu'importe l'auberge  ! Ce perpétuel malaise n'est-il pas une garantie de délicatesse, une preuve de foi  !”
― Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance 3e série. 1852-1854

“In a way, he realized, I’m part of the form-destroying process of entropy.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Those who advocated Brexit, the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, imagined a British nation-state, though such a thing never existed. There was a British Empire, and then there was Britain as a member of the European Union. The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century