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“Twenge says that in the 1950s only 12 per cent of teenagers agreed with the statement ‘I am an important person’, but by the late 1980s this proportion had risen to 80 per cent. So what could have been going on? People becoming much more self‐confident doesn’t seem to fit with them also becoming much more anxious and depressed. The answer turns out to be a picture of increasing anxieties about how we are seen and what others think of us which has, in turn, produced a kind of defensive attempt to shore up our confidence in the face of those insecurities.”
― Richard G. Wilkinson, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone

“If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert his freedom, would rise up and smash the machine.

What the reformers of the Enlightenment, dreaming of a perfect organization of society, had overlooked, Dostoevski saw all too plainly with the novelist's eye: namely, that as modern society becomes more organized and hence more bureaucratized it piles up at its joints petty figures like that of the Underground Man, who beneath their nondescript surface are monsters of frustration and resentment.”
― William Barrett

“باری، ایرانی‌ها بعد از تلاشهای گوناگون، بعد از ۴۰۰ سال ـ با برگشت به گذشته تاریخ خودشان ـ با تشکیل حکومتهای ایرانی و تکیه به زبان فارسی در قرن چهارم هجری، ملتی بودند با هویتی جداگانه و مخصوص خودشان؛ ملت تازه‌ای، نه آن قوم فرسوده و بی‌رمق آخرهای ساسانی، بلکه ملت تازه‌ای تولد یافته بود با آگاهی به هویت خود ـ خودآگاه ـ با دین و تمدنی تازه. گذشته، پشتوانه یا تکیه‌گاه این هویت بود و زبان، جلوه‌گاهش؛ درخت تازه‌ای بود که در آب و هوای اسلام پرورش یافته بود، ام بر زمین خاطرهٔ قومی خود.‏

ـ هویت ایرانی و زبان فارسی”
― شاهرخ مسکوب

“ديشب ، تمام شب ،
چنان بوسه بارانم كرد
كه فكر مي كردم حتي چيزكي از من نمي ماند
اما امروز ، همين امروز صبح
خود او،
نگاهي نو
و لباسي نو
و روحي نو را تن جامه ام كرد.”
― Ribwar Siwayli