Darkest Side Quote by David Eagleman

“Brains are a hindrance to action: the man who sees all sides takes none.”

— Minutes of the 220nd Meeting of the Boobooks Club 1924

“Our darkest fiction is full of Orwellian dystopias, shadowy cabals, and mind-controlling supervillains. But it turns out that the brainless, microscopic, single-celled organisms that…

— Ed Yong

“Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?”

— Frederick Douglass

“It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction, myth, literary…

— Italo Calvino

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

“Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”

— David Lagercrantz

“Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.”

— Vera Brittain

“Put the small stuff into perspective. It's better to be wrong and alive than right but eating brains.”

— Jesse Petersen

“Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.”

— Barbara Lazear Ascher

“Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major…

— Michael Ellner

“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of those we…

— A.R. Merrydew