You Don't Know

You cannot know the future. You look at the news and it looks terrifying. But you can never be sure. That is the whole thing with the future. You don't know.
--Matt Haig

Voyeurs

There are moments when it feels as if advanced global technology--smartphones with cameras, social media networks that transcend borders--developed just in time to render us helpless voyeurs to the world's demise.
--Sarah Kendzior

War

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
--Robert Anton Wilson

Sentences

I'm always interested in the way people edit the details of their lives, the way they compress all the years into sentences.
--Peter Orner

Ailment

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
--Plutarch

Our Choice

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
--Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Race

Race is an idea, not a fact.
--Nell Irvin Painter

Half

The case for women is not that they are inherently better or more moral. It is that they are half of humanity and should have the same opportunities--and be judged according to the same standards--as the other half.
--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Longing

The Welsh have a word for this feeling. The word is "hiraeth." It means a longing for a home you can never return to, a home which may never have existed at all.
--Laurie Penny

Impossible

Agnosticism is an ideology of unknowability, the conviction that is it epistemologically impossible to determine whether or not there is a deity.
--Michele Moses

Interwoven

Racism is so interwoven in the fabric of our country that when we protest racism, people think we are protesting the country.
--AdrianXpression

Swear

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
--Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

The News

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news...if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.
--Frank Zappa

Weird

Repeated warnings from my 98-year-old grandma, a Nazi Germany survivor, chill me. She says it all started this way, with one weird unsettling development after another, until they were past the point of no return.
--Jonah Freedman

Clinical

We are a people in clinical depression. Americans know that the ideals that once set our nation apart from the world have been vandalized, and no matter which party they belong to, they do not see a restoration anytime soon.
--Frank Rich (November 2007)