"In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? That lemming drive you're talking about is there — but there's another kin…"

— Spider Robinson

Literature1948

#mind

"“Cute,” she said, smiling. “If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace."

— Roger Zelazny

Literature1937–1995

#mind

"I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein… you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. We have a responsibility to stand watch over one anot…"

— Dean Koontz

Literature1945

#mind

"Free speech is not the great danger for humanity. Concentration of power is. We learn this lesson over and over again, and yet seem compelled eternally to repeat it. Communism, colonialism, monarchy, …"

— Heather Brooke

Journalism1970

#Human Nature