“You are a person," I said, because I had to say it. Even with the evidence before me, or perhaps because of it.”
Source: Borne
“You obeyed the dictates of your conscience. That’s a higher order. If conscience goes unheeded, we’re lost. Sometimes humanity demands insubordination.”
Source: The Duke Undone
“Programming and using humans to enforce the program on other humans, which is a crucial part of the great spider-web design, allows the Masters to sit back and control everything indirectly, never being seen by the masses.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“They believe the only way to save this world is to remake it in their image.”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“Her wings would be invisible to human eyes, her presence felt only in the whispers of the wind and the warmth of the sun.”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“The war on terrorism is becoming a war on humanity.”
Source: Quote: +/-
“Terrorism is not an ideology of any religion; it is a business policy of weapon-selling countries like America,israel and france.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“It's tempting to imagine this romanticization as the opposite as the opposite of stigmatization. Rather than discounting people as stigma does, romanticization lifts them up as paragons of beauty or intellect or some other virtue. But really, I see these as complimentary strategies, used to make "the sick" into an "other," a group of people fundamentally distant and different from the rest of the social order.
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Imaging someone as more than human does much the same work as imaging them as less than human. Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else's.”
Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“We are powerful enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it- the story of the organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“The worst of humanity was overwhelming. Empathy was alarmingly finite, a fistful of jewels gleaming and traded and gone.”
Source: Listen to Your Sister