“Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be.” - Duncan Trussell

"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me." - Audre Lorde

“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.” - Geroge Orwell, 1984

“The problem with knowing only one culture isn’t that you don’t know others. It’s that you don’t know your own” - abbreviated by Trey, written by Hans Georg-Gadamer in Truth & Method

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” - Frederick Nietzsche

"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment." - Alan Watts

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” - Vladimir Lenin

It’s better to be an honest street sweeper than a dishonest king. - Bhagavad Gita

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” - Harvey Dent, The Dark Night

“What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World