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“Our economic, cultural, and personal lives are suffused with the notion that we can and should transform ourselves into modern-day deities, simultaneously living works of art to be admired by others and ingeniously productive economic machines.”
― Tara Isabella Burton, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

“He who is not enviable is not admirable.”
― Aeschylus, Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus: Ad Fidem Manuscriptorum (1812)

“We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“Φυτέψτε ξανά τον σπόρο της ληστρικής εκμετάλλευσης, της τέλειας περιφρόνησης του νόμου και της καταπίεσης και θα θερίσετε ξανά τη σοδειά της οργής.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Sometimes the individual can retract his decision to pursue a line of activity upon learning of likely failure.”
― Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior

“We can see two forms of [contradictory behaviour]: Early on in life some people sense a softness, vulnerability, or insecurity that might prove embarrassing or uncomfortable. They unconsciously develop the opposite trait, a resilience or toughness that lies on the outside like a protective shell. The other scenario is that a person has a quality that they feel might be antisocial - for instance, too much ambition or an inclination to be selfish. They develop the opposite quality, something very prosocial.”
― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

“Silver linings are, in essence, the construct of hope. They give us something to look forward to, focus on, and strive for. They inspire change by providing a glimpse of a better future. A silver lining is not the same as being in denial or having rose-colored glasses. It is the ability to find hope amid darkness, to see possibility where others see despair. Being an optimist can be a challenging mindset to maintain in moments of negativity. For this reason, those with the space to envision the silver linings must do so. Furthermore, when we cannot find them ourselves, we can rely on each other to help us cope until we can.”
― Naomi Latini Wolfe, M.S.

“Evil is only an option for the powerful people and most likely a suicide attempt for the powerless people. That's why it's often a misconception to describe a powerless person as a good person.”
― Serhat Beyaz KÖROĞLU

“When perceived correctly, the world is a mirror which, disinterestedly, maintains a current record of our nature and constitution. Within this vast parabolic mirror, we should be able to see clearly the forms our faults have taken--which daily stand in our way. Yet, for the sake of allotting our inadequacies a wide berth and so as to avoid running into them head-on, we have learned to artfully avoid our own reflections. Our most regrettable qualities have successfully overwhelmed our nobility and now the image of a man has become indistinguishable from the form of his fault. Of a man, it can no longer be said that he is as a monkey aping the behavior of angels. For in our avoidance of ourselves, we have given up even on strife.
The purpose of this critique is not to aide in the composition of an epic satire; rather, I would like this knowledge to serve as a launching pad. We can correct the human model--there is a method.”
― John Constance

“Society is no longer a property of the state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“A small country has fewer people
Though there are machines that can work ten to a hundred times faster than man, they are not needed.
The people take death seriously and do not travel far.
Though they have boats and carriages, no one uses them.
Though they have armor and weapons, no one displays them.
Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing.
Their food is plain and good, their clothes fine but simple, their homes secure;
They are happy in their ways.
Though they live within sight of their neighbors, and crowing cocks and barking dogs are heard across the way,
Yet they leave each other in peace while they grow old and die.

Lao Tse- Tao Te Ching. Ch. 80”
― Marco Van Den Berg Scholten, In Search of Achilles

“For the desire for freedom, as the antinomy to domination, does not easily square with the need, in the projects that humans pursue together, for delegation—it does not accommodate easily the complexities of authorship as a social phenomenon”
― Isaac Ariail Reed, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies

“The phone in your pocket has eyes and ears, the search engines know your inner troubles, and the calendar knows your future while personal smart devices track your body’s biological processes”
― Scott Brodie Forsyth

“It is in man’s nature to be drawn by the crowd, if only to see what everybody else is up to. Even when that crowd was composed entirely of albino snow monkeys��”
― Mat Johnson, Pym

“Show me a nation with a huge defense budget, I'll show you a retarded nation. Show me a nation with a huge education budget, I'll show you a nation of the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the ultimate defense policy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“All four of Pierre Bourdieu's forms of capital play a role in social reproduction, as capital is passed from generation to generation and keeps people in the same social class as their parents before them. This keeps reproducing inequality through the system of social stratification.[1] The four types of capital are:

Economic capital: the income and wealth of a person, which may well come along with one's inheritance of cultural capital.
Cultural capital: the shared outlook, beliefs, knowledge, and skills that are passed between generations, which may in turn influence human capital.
Human capital: the education and job training a person receives, and which contributes to the likelihood that one will acquire social capital.
Social capital: the social network to which one belongs, which can largely influence one's ability to find opportunities, especially employment.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

“It is not just a world where the few have so much and the many have so little. It is a world where the earth, the natural environment, is being destroyed as collateral damage.”
― Arlynn Bottomley

“Sonnet 1306

Doctors are not official representatives,
Yet they do their job quite efficiently.
Teachers are not official representatives,
Yet they do their job quite respectfully.

Public transport drivers ain't representatives,
Yet they carry their duties quite diligently.
Factory workers ain't official representatives,
Yet they fulfill their tasks rather honorably.

All the professions that actually require
some tangible skillsets and expertise,
don't rely on the jungle whim of democracy.
Yet the most glorified profession of all,
has no performance standards compulsory.

If this is your idea of a civilized democracy,
No wonder you still crave peace in nuclear weapons!
Only monkeys could confuse homicide with defense,
It takes a human to plant peace through illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“All the professions that actually require some tangible skillsets and expertise, don't rely on the jungle whim of democracy. Yet the most glorified profession of all, has no performance standards compulsory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“With this bold stroke, they re-politicized International Women’s Day. Brushing aside the tacky baubles of depoliticization—brunches, mimosas, and Hallmark cards—the strikers have revived the day’s all-but-forgotten historical roots in working-class and socialist feminism.”
― Nancy Fraser, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

“In the contemporary United States, middle-class individuals are expected to construct their own identities and lives by choosing from among the various institutional arenas those that will become the primary source of identity.”
― Lynn Davidman, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism

“Orthodox Judaism mandates that men have greater obligations in prayer and study, while women’s primary role is in the family. Therefore, women do not participate as much in those ongoing rituals that create a relationship to God.”
― Lynn Davidman, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism

“Prawdziwa człowiecza doskonałość leży (...) nie w tym, co kto posiada, lecz w tym, kim jest.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as women are divided by dichotomies that stem from gender oppression, e.g., virgin versus whore, respectable versus unrespectable, and, ultimately, wife versus the other woman, all of which puts women in competition for men, they will not be able to effectively challenge the structures that support some while not supporting others, and in some cases, even exploiting them.”
― Patricia Dixon, We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

“From an emotional standpoint, the question is whether he is emotionally stable himself and whether he is capable of handling the emotional needs of more than one wife and set of children.”
― Patricia Dixon, We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

“In 2006 the federal government expended more than $100 million over a five-year period for marriage and fatherhood education. Interestingly, it is not until recently that the United States is doing something that African peoples have been doing for thousands of years through rites of passage programs -- preparing young people for life and the challenges of marriage and family. Because U.S. society generally takes an interventive approach to marriage, where couples seek help after the marriage is in trouble, rather than a preventive proactive approach, where couples are prepared for the challenges of marriage, most people are not prepared for a monogamous marriage, let alone a polygynous one.”
― Patricia Dixon, We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

“Social scientists report that before European colonialism in Africa, prostitution did not even exist.”
― Patricia Dixon, We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

“A major goal of polygyny in divine marriage is to eliminate the potential exploitation of women and other negatives that can occur under a monogamy-only policy with a preponderance of women.”
― Patricia Dixon, We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

“...the pedigree of people, their family members, where they come from, and what you desire and project where you want to see your family down the line. It is important to be better in the selecting process when you pick and choose your mate.”
― Patricia Dixon, We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative