John Twelve Hawks

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

— John Twelve Hawks

Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a…

— John Twelve Hawks

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

— John Twelve Hawks

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular…

— John Twelve Hawks

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our…

— John Twelve Hawks

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

— John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

— John Twelve Hawks

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

— John Twelve Hawks

“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

— John Twelve Hawks

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in…

— John Twelve Hawks

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the…

— John Twelve Hawks

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

— John Twelve Hawks

When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light…

— John Twelve Hawks

“You don´t need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're beeing watched. (...) Punishment isn't necessary, but the inevitability of punishment has…

— John Twelve Hawks

“(...) I wanted to drink a decent glass of wine in the evening with good friends." "Sounds like a modest goal." "Yes,…

— John Twelve Hawks

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

— John Twelve Hawks

“When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the…

— John Twelve Hawks

“Virtue is admirable, but boring.”

— John Twelve Hawks

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

— John Twelve Hawks