Jared Michaud > Jared's Quotes

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. (Savitar)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

“And, above all, don’t lie. Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
― Elon Musk

“Do not play the game with an opponent who has the power to change the rules.”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“Only the void is content to wait in peace.”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“Power is by far the most potent of all opiates, especially to the powerful.”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“The seed that grew into the downfall of the ancestral Earth was nothing more than a tiny lie.”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“The most precious substances in the universe are forged in its most violent events. The same is true of its greatest men.”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“You must face your past before you can find your future”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“When your eyes are on yourself, you will always see the abyss. To have purpose, even your own story must elevate others.”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“Must you make even your selflessness about you?”
― Jared N. Michaud, Brightstar: Energematrice6 – The Epimyth Begins

“Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.”
― Ivan Illych