“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg, goodreads.com
“Overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…”— Elizabeth Loftus, ted.com
“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“We're all just human beings. We should be guided by that most basic fact, and approach one another with generosity and compassion.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“I asked Jesus to fix me, and when he did not answer I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn.”— Lee Mokobe, ted.com