"For as long as humans have clothed themselves with authority of any sort - civil or religious - abuse has followed."

-Terryl L. Givens in Feeding the Flock

"We must make the market serve humanity rather than have humanity serve the market."

-Andrew Yang

"Long ago I learned not to argue with Marxists and flat Earthers."

-Arthur C. Clarke

"A spiritual experience in and of itself is not transformative, abiding in divine presence is."

-Phil McLemore

"A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child."

-Dalinar in Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings

"We're not puppets on a string of DNA."

-Helen Fisher

"But among the First Men only a minority had ever been capable of wholehearted devotion. The great majority were by nature too much obsessed by private impulses."

-Olaf Stapledon in Last & First Men