Steve Nunn

“From the day when battery-run voices began broadcasting old speeches to battery-run listeners, the beast has been talking to itself. Having swallowed everyone and everything outside itself, the beast becomes its own sole frame of reference. It entertains itself, exploits itself and wars on itself. It has reached the end of its Progress, for there is nothing left for it to progress against except itself.”
― Fredy Perlman, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!

“since the beginning of the world men have been and will be, until the end thereof, bandied about by various shifts of fortune,”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, THE DECAMERON:

“We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity. . . . we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colours and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them".”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer