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The society’s mission statement is to restore Richard III’s good name and discredit the Shakespearean version.”
“If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.”
― Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
― Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
“It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander. It is tempting to say that a Nazi murderer is beyond the pale of understanding. ...Yet to deny a human being his human character is to render ethics impossible.
To yield to this temptation, to find other people inhuman, is to take a step toward, not away from, the Nazi position. To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history.”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
To yield to this temptation, to find other people inhuman, is to take a step toward, not away from, the Nazi position. To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history.”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.”
― The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
― The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
“Power not only corrupts but also magnifies existing psychopathologies, even as it creates new ones. Fostered by the flattery of underlings and the chants of crowds, a political leader’s grandiosity may morph into grotesque delusions of grandeur. Sociopathic traits may be amplified as the leader discovers that he can violate the norms of civil society and even commit crimes with impunity. And the leader who rules through fear, lies, and betrayal may become increasingly isolated and paranoid, as the loyalty of even his closest confidants must forever be suspect.”
― The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
― The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
― The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
― The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
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