Dan Elton

“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
― Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

“Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..”
― Christopher Hitchens