"Slow down everyone you're moving too fast, frames can't catch you when you're moving like that" (Johnson 2001)

"[...] the fairytale is a form of 'whishful thinking'" (Crapanzano1980: 6)

"They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got." (Conrad 1990 [1902]: 4)

"[...] your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to..."

by Joseph Conrad
in Heart of Darkness 1990 (1902): 4

"We have to imagine and to build up what we could be to get rid of political 'double bind'[...]" (Foucault 1982: 785)

We have to imagine and to build up what we could be to get rid of political "double bind", which is the simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures.
The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state and from state's institutions but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.

Excerpt from "The Subject and Power" by Michel Foucault, published in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 777-795, The University of Chicago Press

"Think what would make the world worse off: to find itself without bankers or without poets", (Gramsci 2007 [1975]: 235, quoting Manzoni)

"Drought makes the workers dream", (Patton 1992)