H P Lovecraft from “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”:
“We shall meet again - perhaps in the shining mists of Orion’s sword, perhaps on a bleak plateau in prehistoric Asia, perhaps in unremembered dreams tonight, perhaps in some other form an eon hence, when the solar system shall have been swept away.”

John Masefield:
“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

Noam Chomsky:
“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

Frank Herbert – Dune Messiah:
“The convoluted wording of legalism grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour of his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: ‘I feed on your energy.’
-Addenda to orders in council
The Emperor Paul Muad’dib”

Judith Stone:
“Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have what everyone else has, and to have what no one has.”

H P Lovecraft from “Through the Gates of the Silver Key”:
“Damnation, he reflected, is but a word bandied about by those whose blindness leads them to condemn all whom can see, even with one eye.”

John Sawhill (former President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy):
"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."