Dian Karban

“Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn’t a crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn’t a crisis until the anti-apartheid movement turned it into one.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“The man or woman who realizes God has everything and lacks nothing: having this, “they desire nothing else, and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow” (6:22). Life cannot threaten such a person; all it holds is the opportunity to love, to serve, and to give. Dharma,”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“He used to tell himself although he knew it wasn’t true that the air around her house was different because it was near to her.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun