anokarina: “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
anokarina: “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
anokarina: “Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🐉
anokarina: “[Real love is] about what you do for another person over the course of days and weeks and years, the work put in to care and cathexis.” ―Laurie Penny
anokarina: Self care “is not self-indulgence—it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ―Audre Lorde
anokarina: “Late Capitalism is as good an excuse of any for not getting out of bed, but huddling under the covers worrying about Donald Trump is a very inefficient way of sticking it to the man.” ―Laurie Penny
anokarina: “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
anokarina: “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🐯 🎨 🐰
anokarina: “If hope is too hard to manage, the least we can do is take basic care of ourselves.” ―Laurie Penny
anokarina: “It takes courage to admit fear.” ―Daenerys Targaryen
anokarina: “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ―Pablo Picasso
anokarina: “The lonely work of taking basic care of yourself as you wait for the world to change is a poor substitute [for community].” ―Laurie Penny
anokarina: “[Real love is] the kind of love we’re terribly bad at giving ourselves, especially on the left.” ―Laurie Penny
anokarina: “As an artist right now there’s so much to work on and figure out and explain. I definitely shy away from ‘Trump is stupid’. No, he’s breaking the law. That's clear, I don't need to embellish.” ―Robin Bell
anokarina: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
anokarina: “And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end.” ―Morrissey 🐍
anokarina: “Amid economic dislocation and the loss of stable identities, the Nazis’ promise of Aryan superiority is stabilizing. Stalin understood that people would easily overlook lies and mass murder if it were in their interest to do so.” ―Roger Berkowitz
anokarina: “The man in the white house sits, naked and obscene, a pustule of ego, in the harsh light, a man whose grasp exceeded his understanding, because his understanding was dulled by indulgence.” ―Rebecca Solnit 👊
anokarina: “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
anokarina: “Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
anokarina: “However, less than one hundred hours after the 2016 election, my assumption that virtue overcomes corruption seemed utterly naive.” ―Nicole Pasulka
anokarina: “When I had planned this trip months earlier, and even as I packed on the afternoon of November 8, I had imagined that this indifference to fraud and graft would place the artist on the wrong side of history.” ―Nicole Pasulka
anokarina: “Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.” ―E.B. White
anokarina: “When they are asked by history what they did during the Trump years, the worst of them will confess that they bobbled their heads like dumb dolls, while the best will merely say they kept their heads down.” ―Richard Cohen
anokarina: “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
anokarina: “The truth is that even if we are not dragged into the fray by accident, none of us has the luxury of tuning out the political drama. Our mutual identity as protectors of our children’s and grandchildren’s future demands it.” ―Mike Pence @mikepence
anokarina: “But of course, people of colour will rarely, if ever, be called experts on how to simply be themselves.” ―Lorraine Chuen
anokarina: “Among the services I offer to white boyfriends: a built-in comfort with whiteness; skillful code-switching; and free lessons in what W.E.B. Du Bois called “double consciousness”.” ―Namwali Serpell
anokarina: “It's as if racialized folks and their ways of life are objects to be observed—study material, of sorts—rather than entire countries, cultures, and individual complex lives.” ―Lorraine Chuen
anokarina: “The septons preach about the seven hells. What do they know? Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like.” ―Gregor Clandane