The cry that breaks the silence is the sound of bodies becoming fully aware of what the predatory system has cost and being fully aware as well that it can be otherwise.
— Walter Brueggemann
Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.
— Jonathan Edwards
I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin?