Mary

“The advice that you must change your environment—for example, by eliminating negative people and news—is an admission that there may in fact be a “real world” out there that is utterly unaffected by our wishes. In the face of this terrifying possibility, the only “positive” response is to withdraw into one’s own carefully constructed world of constant approval and affirmation, nice news, and smiling people.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Giving in to terrorism will yield more terrorism, because it works.”
― David Silverman, Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World

“Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

“Purge everyone who “brings you down,” and you risk being very lonely or, what is worse, cut off from reality.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America