Steven Cloud

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

— Alice Walker (via phamv)

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

— Dostoevsky, Fyodor

"I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me."

— Banksy, street artist (b. 1974)

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

— Voltaire

"A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

— Albert Einstein