The general juridical form that guaranteed a system of rights that were egalitarian in principle was unsupported by these fine, everyday, physical mechanisms, by all those systems of micro-power that are essentially non-egalitarian and asymmetrical that we call the ‘disciplines’ such as exams, hospitals, prisons, the regulation of workshops, schools, the army.

— Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish

Transcendental guarantees of truth are dead; in the agonal struggle of language games there is no commensurability; there are no criteria of truth transcending local discourses, but only the endless struggle of local narratives vying with one another for legitimation.

— Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self

…monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are not clothed. . . . We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang, Accessory to War

Each person has their own individual pieces of the puzzle, but those pieces need to be assembled by them, not for them.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity