Quotes About Awareness

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care?

Peace is dangerous because it encourages complacency and carelessness

intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial.

I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.

They say detailed news doesn't matter. Since we can't change the stupid, greedy, vicious things that powerful people do, they think we should try to ignore them. No matter how many times we're forced to admit we can't really hide, some of us still find ways to try. Well, we can't hide. So it's best to pay attention to what goes on. The more we know, the better able we'll be to survive.

It's hard to believe that kind of thing happened here, in the United States in the twenty-first century, but it did.

Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.

Dad tries to shield us from what goes on in the world, but he can't. Knowing that, he also tries to teach us to shield ourselves.

We walk the highways and scrounge and scavenge and ask for work, and all of that reminds people that what's happened to us can happen to them. They don't like to think about stuff like that, so they get mad at us. They make the cops arrest us or run us out of town.

I hope people who read Parable of the Sower will think about where we seem to be heading--we the United States, even we the human species. Where are we going? What sort of future are we creating? Is it the kind of future you want to live in? If it isn't, what can we do to create a better future?

Nothing is going to save us. If we don't save ourselves, we're dead.

She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.

no matter what Dad thinks or wants or wishes. I feel what I see others feeling or what I believe they feel. Hyperempathy is what the doctors call an "organic delusional syndrome.

c'era voluta un'epidemia per far capire alla gente che le cose potevano cambiare.

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries?

Why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

What's your point?" "The changes." I thought for a moment. "They were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.

every time I understand a little more, I wonder why it's taken me so long—why there was ever a time when I didn't understand a thing so obvious and real and true.

you think they want to wash?" I asked Harry and Zahra.

It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out.

Mas todos podemos aprender mais. E então, ensinar uns aos outros. Podemos parar de negar a realidade ou esperar que ela desapareça por mágica.

To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it, Almost by reflex Then to defend it Because we've said it And at last to embrace it Because we've defended it And because we cannot admit That we've embraced and defended An obvious lie.