So a while ago this guy wanted to kill his son but then god stopped him and this is why all laundrettes in Amsterdam open later today.
Schlagwort: Gesellschaft
Der hat Zähne.
I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
Bertrand Russell: Autobiography
T.
I looked around the room at my coworkers, wildly searching for eyes filled with the judgment I felt. No one else was thinking, “In my perfect day at some point I’d have an interaction with another human being that wasn’t a stylized power ritual?” No one appeared to be.
I wasn’t on testosterone when that meeting happened.
G.
Gemeinschaft ist das dauernde und echte Zusammenleben, Gesellschaft nur ein vorübergehendes und scheinbares.
Ferdinand Tönnies: Abhandlung des Communismus und des Socialismus als empirischer Culturformen.
Voogd.
"Freedom!" is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the bearest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
Timothy Cavendish in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell