Quote by Steve Aylett Download Open image ““The trustiest rule of social disintegration: bars burn last.”” — Steve Aylett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough.” — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is that, as human beings, we all crave belonging and connection. This only happens when trust is established and continuously cultivated.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“In the democratic, egalitarian spirit of our day, we hold in suspicion positions of social authority, yet we submit to the power of peers.… — Mark Sayers Copy Share Image
“Anything that binds people together into dense networks of trust makes people less selfish. In” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Social wars of a society should aim to reinstate a dignified life where love can thrive; not to create a future bound by immense… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“Trust is difficult to sustain when we build a rich inner world of drama that we do not share with those around us.” — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them” — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could… — Steve Aylett Copy Share
“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His skull broke like the vase and the vase broke like his skull, and both burst forth water mainly, and from the vase some flowers. If I could choose a death I’d make it something like that,… — Steve Aylett Copy Share
“[...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it’s the result of a deliberate series of… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised. — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that. — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other. — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image