Quotes About Awareness

Do not obey in advance.

When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.

The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma.

Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. One advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.

Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.

Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.

Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with oth

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual- and thus the collapse of any political system that depends upon individualism.

Ionesco's aim was to help us see just how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it. By using the absurd image of the rhinoceros, Ionesco was trying to shock people into noticing the strangeness of what was actually happening.

Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you.

Make eye contact and small talk.

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever

The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.

Make sure you and your family have passports.

To Ukrainians, Americans seemed comically slow to react to the obvious threats of cyberwar and fake news. When

We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex.

Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.

Yet it can be recorded, and it can be understood. Indeed, it must be understood so that its like can be prevented in the future. That must be enough for us and for those who, let us hope, shall follow.

When history is removed, numbers go upward and memories go inward, to all of our peril.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

You just noticed? You're slow...

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.