Quote by Octavia E. Butler Download Open image ““Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.”” — Octavia E. Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“I suppose I am talking about just that: the ambiguity of belonging to a generation distrustful of political highs, the historical irrelevancy of growing… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?” — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“My adversaries were those with a traditional mind-set, the usual opponents of any idea “not invented here,” those fearful that what I was trying… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When all that binds us is what we believe rather than who we are, changing our mind or challenging the collective ideology is risky.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Our society had become antagonistic and biased against the principled and moral members of society.” — Mike Foster Copy Share Image
“We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“By contrast, the most monstrous crimes against humanity have invariably been inspired by unjustified belief.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“It’s too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won’t happen after all—or… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Se sono tuoi, stabilisci tu le regole. A chi importa che cosa ne pensano i giocattoli? Spazza via l'intera famiglia di un giocattolo, poi… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“In the book of Job, God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question what he… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will do anything… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Self is. Self is body and bodily perception. Self is thought, memory, belief. Self creates. Self destroys. Self learns, discovers, becomes. Self shapes. Self… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
