“While he could not directly challenge Fahim, Haroun had one advantage: he had direct experience with how groupthink could rapidly destroy prosperity of a country. And with his knowledge and invitations to be a guest speaker, he would do everything he could to educate others about the dangers of groupthink to prevent others from suffering like he did.”
Source: The Refugee from a Democratic Utopia
“Agency is the job. Choices are your duties while on the job. Consequences are the eventual paycheck. So, if you want a decent paycheck, make decent choices.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“While your wants get you into conflicts, only your wants can get you out of them.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“Single mothering is challenging the concept of the `male breadwinner and a provider’ model.”
Source: Single Mothers, Patriarchy and Citizenship in India: Rethinking Lone Motherhood through the Lens of Socio-legal and Policy Framework
“I actually want to stress that I think that many of the things that one can do should certainly not be done by corporations or governments without users' consent.”
Source: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
“The right to participate politically grants recognition to the moral personhood of the citizen, and exercise of that right gives that person some degree of agency over the common life of the community. The citizen may make poorly informed or bad decisions, but the exercise of political choice in and of itself is an important part of human flourishing.”
Source: Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
“I turned into a puppet with a giant hand inside me. Not a particular hand. Just a hand.”
Source: Veronica
“Even as she saw these two men she knew that she would accompany them, and the certainty gave her an unexpected sense of power: instead of feeling the omens, she now would make them, be them herself.”
Source: The Sheltering Sky
“You must first say, I am, before others will say, you are.”
“Forcefulness is not love. Forget trying to force people into submission and instead try informing and educating as a means of gaining voluntary compliance. Never deny individual agency; it only creates resentment, defensiveness, and resistance. Education, on the other hand, creates wisdom that opens ears and hearts and minds. No one responds as favorably to demands as they do to informed requests.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year