Anna

“Any given system of power is built on an assumption (which of course is trying to portray itself as an axiom) that to receive joy you need to pay or obey. The ultimate act of subversion is thus finding joy in a refusal to pay and obey, in an act of living by radically different values. It’s not an act of deprivation or austerity, it’s not a vow, it’s an act that reveals joy that transcends given boundaries.”
― Nadya Tolokonnikova

“He who emphasizes the ritual of faith can lose the point of faith.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity