Paul John Moscatello

Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

Don’t be a slave to your own ignorance. Know where your opinions, especially the strongly held ones, came from and be brave enough to question them.

Dean Van Drasek

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

An environment that is not safe to disagree in is not an environment focused on growth - it’s an environment focused on control.

Wendi Jade

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.

Bell Hooks

When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them - and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.

Thomas Merton, Follow the Ecstasy

Big brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers, until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled.

And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat.

Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.

Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Bloom

The most dangerous person is one who insists that he is right and who is believed to never be wrong. In principle, psychological manipulation of public opinion in such conditions is not difficult.

Elmar Hussein