Conscious awareness Quote by Ian Brady

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present…

— Adyashanti

Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an…

— Matthew Walker

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

— Victor Hugo

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

— Erich Fromm

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in…

— George Orwell

“... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.”

— Ryan Hurd

“One moment of awakening can reverse a lifetime of sleepwalking.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism.”

— Jonathan Crary

“One moment of compassionate awakening you can reverse a lifetime of selfish sleepwalking.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

— Lorraine Toussaint

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

— Haruki Murakami