Darin Hylbert

“can be so easy to get distracted by, even consumed by, horrible news from all over the world. The proper response of the Stoic to these events is not to not care, but mindless, meaningless sympathy does very little either (and comes at the cost of one’s own serenity, in most cases).”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“The age-old pursuit of shaping public opinion is how leaders, institutions, rebels, and reformers attempt to deliberately and strategically exert their influence on society. Their aim is to mold their audiences’ attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors with regard to ideas, people, policies, and even social norms. The ultimate goal is to create consensus that advances their way of seeing the world…”
― Renee DiResta, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

“As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has written, “The most common form of hypocrisy among the privileged classes is to assume that their privileges are the just payments with which society rewards specially useful or meritorious functions,” while accusing the underprivileged of “lacking what they have been denied the right to acquire.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“What matters, in other words, isn’t what we feel but how we respond to those feelings.”
― Donald J. Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius