Satyajeet

“When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

“Any situation in which A objectively exploits B or hinders his pursuit of self-affirmation as a responsible person is an act of oppression. Such a situation in itself constitutes violence, even when sweetened by false generosity, because it interferes with the individual's ontological and historical vocation to be more fully human. With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The slow and painful transformation of a passionate and narrowly egotistical being into a man who gives himself over wholly to some great work or other that devours him, destroys him, lives in his blood, is a trial every creative being must endure.”
― Józef Czapski, Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp