“We Have To Explore To Survive. As Soon As We Have Traces Of Life, If You Don’t Diversify Your Environment,

“Let them eat cake.” - Marie Antoinette

“From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say - Look at that, you son of bitch.” - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14

NASA photo of Mitchell getting lost on the moon, as we learned that our perceptions change out there!

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. - Susan Sontag

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright

Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?

Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.

Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin

Comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases. - Rolf Dobelli https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

Illustration by John Holcroft

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornell West

Photo by Helen Levitt

Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people that you never met. - Doug Stanhope

“In times of destruction, create something.” - Maxine Hong Kingston

Painting by Paul Davey. http://www.mattahan.com/