“My strong suspicion is we get the world we deserve.”— Nic Pizzolatto, Ray Velcoro, Colin Farrell, imdb.com
“Loss inherently makes the loser sympathetic. We can easily be made to feel bad for the person on the other side of a true catastrophe, even if just minutes before we thought they had it coming to them.”— Ryan Holiday,
“I think, deep down, we're all capable of unspeakable things. Where it starts or what you call it, I don't know.”— Chris Mundy, Aaron Hotchner, Thomas Gibson, imdb.com
“It's human nature to try and hold on to things.”— Joseph Dougherty, Ezra Fitz, Ian Harding, imdb.com
“This is the world we live in. People relying on each other’s mistakes to manipulate one another and use one another, even relate to one another. A warm, messy circle of humanity.”— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com
“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.”— Ross Perot, logomaker.com
“The main source of difficulty is that participants are part of the situation they have to deal with. Confronted by reality of extereme complexity we are ablyged to various methods of simplification. Generalizations, metaphors, moral precepts to mention a few.”— George Soros, youtube.com
“It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life -- for all it's material good fortune -- has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“If war were purely and absolutely bad in every single aspect and toxic in all its effects, it would probably not happen as often as it does. But in addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly into…”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“I'm going to quiet my cleverness and not look at what is, but potentially what could be.”— Duke Stump, youtube.com
“The ability for the art of inquiry to penetrate our lives versus the art of answers.”— Duke Stump, youtube.com
“We love comfort. And happiness. You know what nature loves and why it thrives? There is mutation. There is disruption. It's easy for people to say hey you need to adapt and you need to evolve. Wait how do I do that? Well, nature is locally attuned. It has an understanding for the essence around it,…”— Duke Stump, youtube.com
“A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one’s personal authority and always take full responsibility for one’s actions.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then…”— Philip Zimbardo, goodreads.com
“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and…”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings…”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.”— Becca Fitzpatrick, amazon.com
“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com