Daniel Maté > Quotes

“You can't take over someone's land, resources, power if you see them as human and deserving of rights. If an egalitarian Zionist state was possible, it's no longer. Israel has made that clear. You can have some parts of cultural Zionism, you can love the land, but you have to love it, not destroy it, and you have to love the people who have been tending to it for thousands of years”
― Daniel Maté

“Less ability to focus on the normal, the baseline, including states of observation, contemplation, and transitions from which ideas spark— what many under the age of twenty now consider a void, proclaiming boredom… On a biological as well as a cultural level, such brain state changes affect learning, socialization, recreation, partnering, parenting, and creativity—in essence, all factors that make a society and a culture.”
― Daniel Maté, The Myth Of Normal By Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté & The Happiness Trap By Dr. Russ Harris 2 Books Collection Set