A few thoughts from writers i admire
"The truth isn't always beautiful, but the hunger for it is".
Nadine Gordimer, Telling Times
"Anything that is dangerous can sometimes appear attractive and beautiful"
Mesa Selimovic, Death and the Dervish
"Wherever justice is lacking the oppressed may provide it for themselves"
Bartolome de las Casas, Historia de las Indias
"He was merely regurgitating hundreds of years of philosophical, social and political vomit".
Moses Isegawa, Abysinnian Chronicles
"Ethics is the evaluation of justifications".
William T. Vollmann, Rising up and Rising Down
“This city carried too many centuries on its back at the same time."
Kojo Laing, Search Sweet Country
"As power is born of conspiracy, the mighty cannot but think in its terms"
Stefan Heym, The King David Report
"Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose"
Njal's Saga
"The history of the poor is either sung or lost".
Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind
"Nowadays we call good whatever gives us the illusion that it will get us somewhere".
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities