Ruby Manougian

“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”
― George K. Simon Jr., In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People

“Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed, but that the learned must decide when and how.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Azur smiled as if he were expecting these answers and said, 'The Malady of Certainty.'

Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With certainty came arrogance; with arrogance, blindness; with blindness, darkness; and with darkness, more certainty. This he called, the converse nature of convictions.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“لا أعتقد أننا كنا جميعًا على استعداد للموت من أجل قضية عادلة، حتى في سن الثامنة عشر. و لكن تلك المعضلة لم تفارق أذهاننا ولا مناقشاتنا. أسنمضي حياتنا بأكملها، و في كل الأحوال شبابنا، بدون أن تسنح لنا فرصة الإنخراط بملء جوارحنا في معركة تستحق النضال؟ أهناك من حولنا قضية عادلة، يدافع عنها البشر الأنقياء، أو على الأقل الجديرون بالثقة؟ كنت أشك بذلك.”
― أمين معلوف , التائهون