“What did other people’s deaths or a mother’s love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we’re all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn’t he see, couldn’t he see that?
Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.”
I don’t know if this quote has already shown up, but it’s one of my favorites.
“Consider this: You are the architect of your own imprisonment.”
-- Macros the Black (from Raymond E. Feist’s Riftwar Saga)
Robert Anton Wilson, The Trick Top Hat
--Albert Camus, The Stranger