a. Does a Human Being Have the Right to Let Himself Be Put to Death for the Truth? by H.H. - Søren Kierkegaard

More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all — in order to become the public: that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party (an onlooker).

The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

My soul is so heavy that no longer can any thought sustain it, no wingbeat lift it up into the ether. If it moves, it only sweeps along the ground like the low flight of birds when a thunderstorm is brewing.