Alexandre Silva

“The third point is that some of our efforts to treat psychopaths may be misplaced. The term treatment implies that there is something to treat: illness, subjective distress, maladaprive behaviors, and so forth. But, as far as we can determine, psychopaths are perfectly happy with themselves, and they see no need for treatment, at least in the traditional sense of the term.”
― Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

“sometime over the last several decades—and it is only over the last several decades—science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“É preciso não contar demasiadamente com Deus, mas talvez Deus conte conosco...”
― Anonymous

“Neste mundo, o pecado que paga a passagem pode viajar tranquilamente e sem passaporte, enquanto que a virtude em um pobre é detida em todas as fronteiras.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick