Ideas

Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. - Peter Beinart

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. - The Woodcutter and the Trees

I have stored everything and saved nothing. – Ezra Klein

Soon silence will have passed into legend.

Man has turned his back on silence.

Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation

Jean Arp