Nellie

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar?
Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god’s decree.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings