Semilitrovka

“People have been beaten to death in front of crowds that could easily overtake the attacker. The bigger the crowd, the more likely it is that nobody will intervene. The principle is called "diffusion of responsibility," and boils down to the pressure for conformity overwhelming the need to act. Any guilt over not acting is shared between the people not acting. You didn't stand by and watch someone get killed, after all. It was a crowd of 1000. You only stood around to the tune of 0.1% of the incident as a whole.”
― Johnny B. Truant, Disobey

“I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

“Mindless conformity is what turns us from humans into sheep.”
― Johnny B. Truant, Disobey

“in the small amount of time you have to live, you can be whatever you want. It means that even though the universe doesn't care enough to give you what you want, it doesn't care enough to stop you from having it, either.”
― Johnny B. Truant, The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You