Quotes & Highlights

Communism (data belong to the group), Universalism (apply uniform standards to claims and evidence, regardless of where they came from), Disinterestedness (vigilance against potential conflicts that can influence the group’s evaluation), and Organized Skepticism (discussion among the group to encourage engagement and dissent).

In moments of stress or uncertainty, we tend to fall back on the familiar and comfortable.”

Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that though one day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to see moments of light.

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan” — Eliel Saarinen

in the shadow of that vanity, man grew lesser for having more.

The trouble with barter, Jevons said, was that it required a “double coincidence” of wants.

“The old rage in colder ways, for they alone decide how to spend the young.”

I once thought the greatest sin of war was violence. It isn’t. The greatest sin is it requires good men to become practical.

War eats the victors last.”

Fascism rarely makes a dramatic entrance. Typically, it begins with a seemingly minor character—Mussolini in a crowded cellar, Hitler on a street corner—who steps forward only as dramatic events unfold. The story advances when the opportunity to act comes and Fascists alone are prepared to strike. That is when small aggressions, if unopposed, grow into larger ones, when what was objectionable is accepted, and when contrarian voices are drowned out.