“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”  --Philip K. Dick

“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”  --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  

"Charlie Kirk himself understood that politics today is performed through provocation, memes, and culture war — what Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox calls “algorithmically incentivized ghoulishness.” Kirk thrived in that world, mixing the habits of a democratic debater with the instincts of a pugilist. His method was to provoke, to needle, to troll — often in the name of debate and free speech. That mix — democratic in aspiration, combative in style — made him both a powerful voice in America’s fractured public square and a symbol of its degradation. His murder, so young, at the hands of a young man undone by the same meme-saturated culture is a tragic irony. It shows just how thin the line has become between pluralist debate and weaponized alienation."  --Roger Berkowitz, The Fine Line Between Pluralist Debate and Weaponized Alienation

"We can take this moment in history and continue to delude ourselves about our violent past and present condition, relying on our most primitive instincts, or we can decide to come together and demand a humanitarian path forward. A path that sees respect for the human condition, one that ensures we take care of each other, one that does not determine a person's value based on who they voted for but instead recognizes the cardinal virtue of every human being–here and abroad."  --Nina Turner

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."  --Martin Luther King, Jr.

“This world, as we all know, can be so full of criticism and discrimination and negativity. So, to get to be part of something… that can bring you light, make you smile, make you dance… I’m so grateful. So grateful to do that.”  --Sabrina Carpenter 

"While isolation concerns only the political realm of life, loneliness concerns human life as a whole. Totalitarian government, like all tyrannies, certainly could not exist without destroying the public realm of life, that is, without destroying, by isolating men, their political capacities. But totalitarian domination as a form of government is new in that it is not content with this isolation and destroys private life as well. It bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man."  --Hannah Arendt