Allyn R.

“They were good people. Not dolphin-good, but human-good, which was almost good enough. They couldn’t fulfill the instinctive needs she had burning in her brain, the ones that told her to find a mate who wasn’t her brother or her uncle, to swim, to leap, to know. So she was here, with the deep black sea between her and her freedom.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“fascist politics creates a state of unreality, in which conspiracy theories and fake news replace reasoned debate.”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“But what is most terrifying about these rhetorical divides is that it is typical of fascist movements to attempt to transform myths about “them” into reality through social policy.”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“Yet there have been known to be philosophers and plain men who swore by Malthus in the books, and would, nevertheless, subscribe to a relief fund in time of a famine. It was the same with Jurgis, who consigned the unfit to destruction, while going about all day sick at heart because of his poor old father, who was wandering somewhere in the yards begging for a chance to earn his bread.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle