Do not trust a person who claims to be honest, and never trust exaggerated friendliness.
If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
There are two kinds of perfect person; one who is dead and the other one is not yet born.
When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
One person can burn water, while another can't even burn oil.
If a person shave you with a razor, do not shave him with broken glass.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best cook.
Clary shut her eyes. You didn't say no to an angel, no matter what it had in mind. Her heart pounding, she sat floating in the darkness behind her eyelids, resolutely trying not to think of Jace. But his face appear against the blank screen of her cl...
And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made out of glass, with the hardness of his expression slowly dissolving into tentative uncertainty. "You are not really dying," he said, the oddest tone t...
In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear hard. She may feel her early conditioning tugging her in the direction of surrender, but she ought to remember that she was origina...
The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics ...
In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of their material desires: what economists call "maximising utility". The ultimate objective of mankind...
The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punished with a plague of fiery serpents, so that many lost their lives. When they repented, Moses was told by God to make a brazen serpent and set it up fo...
Violent ideologies speak their own language; core concepts are translated to maintain the system while appearing to support the people. Under carnism, for instance, democracy has become defined as having the freedom to choose among products that sick...
To a man without a country, He appeared a joint sojourner. To Joshua armed but afraid, He came a valiant warrior. To Moses raised up on the mount, He was the One yet higher. To Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, He was the fourth man in the fire. To El...
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
