No step along the way had seemed more than a little thing; but altogether it came to something rather monstrous. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Why were the good days always so short? Moment to moment, day by day—each so full, and oh so lovely—and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them.

Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you still have to argue it point by point. Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That’s libertarians for you—anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself.