Dennis Fischman

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“When men oppress their fellow-men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” Douglass, amazingly, summed up the history of racist ideas in a single sentence.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
― Montesquieu

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky