Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has…

“You've found a way to stay sane, Renfew--even if that means admitting a tiny piece of piano-playing madness into your world. But there's a…

— Alastair Reynolds

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

— James Buchan

I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes,…

— Jason Blum

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening…

— Ted Simon

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the authoritarian family…

— Wilhelm Reich

“It seems as if historicist ideas easily become prominent in times of great social change. They appeared when Greek tribal life broke up, as…

— Karl Popper

“A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the children of all patriarchal cultural circles acquire in…

— Wilhelm Reich

“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius XI –…

— Christopher Duggan

“Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Every once in a while, however, the subordinates of this world contest their fates. They protest their conditions, write letters and petitions, join movements,…

— Corey Robin

“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder,…

— Alice Jamieson

“although those who exhibit structural division of the personality commonly exhibit altered states of consciousness, only relatively few individuals who experience altered states of…

— Paul Frewen

“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust…

— Alice Jamieson

“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the…

— Michael Salter