Barry Mernin

“Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
― Khalil Gibran

“As has been said about science, sometimes society advances funeral by funeral.47”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“remember passing our once-beautiful large synagogue, which had not been used for many years now, and seeing a woman leaning against the wall wailing, just crying out in agony. She looked to me like a branch dismembered from a tree, an arm without a body, a mind filled with grief, a bleeding heart, a walking tragedy. I hurried away, afraid of being swept up into her grief.”
― Alicia Appleman, Alicia: My Story

“In 21st-century America, the control of Congress by a Republican Party that became synonymous with the extreme right has been pernicious, because it is so convinced of the righteousness of its cause and the evil of its rivals that it has undermined the institutions of democracy to get what it wants.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress