“Politicians and predators operate on disturbingly similar principles.”
― Paul Of Dune
― Paul Of Dune
“Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located—so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation—there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”
― Second Foundation
― Second Foundation
“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing off a part of our souls. —Jane Goodall”
― The Darwin Strain
― The Darwin Strain
“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and past and future become one. —Alfred Hitchcock”
― The Himalayan Codex
― The Himalayan Codex
“Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how we get together now around the world and get out of this mess we’ve made. That’s the key thing now. Nevermind how we got to be who we are.”
― The Himalayan Codex
― The Himalayan Codex
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