Stoicism can lead to political quietism – a withdrawal from the sphere of political life, and public life more generally, exclusively into the realm of the individual and personal.

— Philosophy Now, Anja Publications

Choose your battles carefully: to be heard properly, you first need to listen to others.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

…if you create a bureaucratic structure to deal with some problem, that structure will invariably end up creating other problems that seem as if they, too, can only be solved by bureaucratic means.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

It is because of a deep underlying anxiety, a root-level painful insecurity, that people engage in zero-sum competition and hate the people who succeed.

— Martha Nussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear

The idea that religion is a separate magisterium that cannot be proven or disproven is a Big Lie—a lie which is repeated over and over again, so that people will say it without thinking; yet which is, on critical examination, simply false.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory