Noura

“Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Het probleem, schrijft Solove, is niet zozeer dat al die informatie over ons verzameld wordt, het probleem is dat wij geen enkel zicht noch controle hebben op de manier waarop onze data worden gebruikt. In de woorden van Solove: 'Het probleem [...] is de macht die deze bureaucratieën over ons hebben.”
― Dimitri Tokmetzis, Je hebt wél iets te verbergen

“we can hear our own thoughts and feel our own pain, while we can’t hear other people’s thoughts or feel their pain. Thus we see the wrongs others do but not the reasons, while we see the reasons for our own bad behavior but we don’t feel the consequences.”
― Pamela J. Olson

“Zionism offered itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, but became the main reason for its continued presence.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel