💬 Quotes

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

"Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction."

"True awakening is not a sudden flash of light, but the slow, often painful peeling away of the illusions we mistook for reality."

"We spend the first half of our lives building cages of expectations, and the second half trying to remember how to fly."

"To look inward requires a courage far greater than any battle fought in the physical world; it demands that we face the stranger looking back at us in the mirror."

"Silence is not the absence of sound, but the presence of a deeper truth waiting for the noise of the world to subside."

"Transformation is rarely comfortable. It asks you to surrender the person you were told to be in order to discover the soul you actually are."

"Once the veil is lifted, you cannot un-see the patterns of your own captivity. Freedom begins the moment you refuse to play your assigned part."

"There is no security against the ultimate development of mechanical consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing no consciousness now."

"Illness of any kind is considered to be just as much a matter of course as any moral lapse, and is dealt with accordingly."

"The people of Erewhon look upon ill-health as a crime which calls for punishment, rather than as an affliction which calls for sympathy."

"If a man goes up to the university, his parents expect him to unlearn all the vulgar prejudices which had been instilled into him at nursery."

"To imagine that each one of us is an automaton is just as absurd as to imagine that the machine is a soul-possessing being."

"It seems to me that the 'good' are generally the 'easy-going', and the 'bad' are the 'uncompromising'."

"Every age and generation must be free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it."

"Government is not trade, but a trust, which ought to be executed on the most liberal principles of duty, and public advantage."

"Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights secured."

"An army of principles will penetrate where an army of cannons cannot."

"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."

"It is an absurdity to say that the generations which are to come are at the mercy of the generations which have been."