Randi DeSantis

“One potential remedy for human stupidity is a dose of humility. National, religious and cultural tensions are made worse by the grandiose feeling that my nation, my religion and my culture are the most important in the world – hence my interests should come before the interests of anyone else, or of humankind as a whole. How can we make nations, religions and cultures a bit more realistic and modest about their true place in the world?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“And he had learned that pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.”
― Hernan Diaz, In the Distance