John Twelve Hawks Quotes

#1. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

John Twelve Hawks

#2. I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

George Eliot

#3. It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

Lauren Worsham

#4. You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

John Twelve Hawks

#5. When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.

John Twelve Hawks

#6. Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects.
But now a significant change is about to occur.
In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

John Twelve Hawks

#7. Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

John Twelve Hawks

#8. Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

John Twelve Hawks

#9. Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

Thane Rosenbaum

#10. Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

#11. Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

John Twelve Hawks

#12. Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

Christina Stead

#13. Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

John Twelve Hawks

#14. When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.

John Twelve Hawks

#15. Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

John Twelve Hawks

#16. Strong isn't about not being afraid, Caitlin. It's about facing what you're scared of.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#17. Protect your dreams from your nightmare

Munia Khan

#18. We write to go on living, after we have died.

Jenim Dibie

#19. The noise kept up and did not stop. My head rang. I saw Shepherd take the chewing gum from his mouth, break it into two, and stick it in both ears. He kept working.

Kenneth Oppel

#20. I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

Dave Grohl

#21. True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

John Twelve Hawks

#22. Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

John Twelve Hawks

#23. Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

John Twelve Hawks

#24. Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

John Twelve Hawks

#25. The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Fisher Ames