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“In the arctic, seasons do not melt peaceably into one another as they do in other climes, giving each other handshakes, fond farewells, and see-ya-next-years. In the arctic, winter stands like a barbarian horde on the edge of town one day and ravages it the next. Winter moves in without warning, grabs summer by the belt loops of its cutoffs, and throws it out the door.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom

“the polluters had triumphed by overturning the campaign-finance laws. “There was a huge change after Citizens United,â€� he contends. “When anyone could spend any amount of money without revealing who they were, by hiding behind amorphous-named organizations, the floodgates opened. The Supreme Court made a huge mistake. There is no accountability. Zero.”
― Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

“Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.”
― Paul Bowles, Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World

“Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar of Jewish origin, turned his philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate opposition: The people always meant some people and not others (the president uses the word in this way), encounters were always struggles (the president says winning), and any attempt by free people to understand the world in a different way was defamation of the leader (or, as the president puts it, libel). Politicians”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century