“People don’t always value life, even their own, as much as they should.”
“I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.”
“The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.”
“they wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is." - utopia”
“People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should”
“Essentially, people live in one of two ways. Either they live in awareness of their own worthlessness, or they live in their awareness of the worthlessness of the world. Two ways. Either you allow your value to be absorbed by the world, or you chisel away at the world's value and make it your own. Which should take precedence, the value of the world your own value?”