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"In the face of the environmental crisis of the Anthropocene, we've seen that there is no alternative to toppling capitalism and imagining a postcapitalist future for ourselves. Even so, why should we, at this late date, return to Marx? ... This will not be a rehash of outdated Marxist analyses. Rather, I intend to use fresh archival sources to present a new Marx for a new era: the Anthropocene."

"They don't see the children," [Daisy] said. Not for who they are, only for what they are capable of."

"I don't speak," he says. "I show people war. I show them the caskets they are not allowed to see. If people don't see what war does, they don't feel it. if they don't feel it, they don't care."

699 “There was a dark absurdity in the spectacle of Judge Drain and the bankruptcy lawyers arguing about how to divvy up what was left of Purdue Pharma—which now amounted to cash/assets of roughly $1 billion—when the Sacklers were looking on from the sidelines, apparently untouchable, and holding on to so much more. According to deposition testimony the family had taken as much as $13 billion out of the company.”

Chapter 8 - The Undertow
"Although no one believed in civil war, the air reeked of it..." — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, recalling 1860.
The Capitol, January 6, 2021

"We felt like we were doing a righteous thing. There's millions of people in pain, and we have the solution." — Steven May, Perdue salesman, 1999

"When Howard Udell learned that this [FDA] regulation was coming, he decided Purdue should try to beat it. 'Before this goes into effect let's make MS Contin and put it on the market' he said. So without alerting the FDA, Perdue started manufacturing MS Contin and offered it for sale October 1984."

"Like Arthur, Mortimer chose to name the first son from his second marriage after himself."

"Special for Dori was all I needed to be." — DC

"Ask yourself why the literature department only translates works into English and not the other way around, or what the interpreters are being sent abroad to do. Everything Babel does is in the service of expanding the empire. Consider - Sir Horace Wilson, who's the first endowed chair in Sanskrit in Oxford history, spends half his time conducting tutorials for Christian missionaries."

"How does all the power from foreign languages just somehow accrue to England? This is no accident; this is a deliberate exploitation of foreign culture and foreign resources. The professors like to pretend that the tower is a refuge for pure knowledge, that it sits above the mundane concerns of business and commerce, but it does not. It's intricately tied to the business of colonialism."

"After 12 strikes, it all stopped. With just as much poise and precision, Professor Lovell returned the poker to the mantle, stepped back, and sat down at the table, regarding Robin silently as the boy climbed to his knees and wiped the blood, as best he could, from his face."