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 More Quotes by John Twelve Hawks More Quotes From John Twelve Hawks True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways. John Twelve Hawks memorial-day freedom military Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope. John Twelve Hawks expression life-is important-choices 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 eras significant-change animal Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings. John Twelve Hawks rest-of-life new-experiences sleep Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path. John Twelve Hawks path faith easy Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. John Twelve Hawks oracles these-days sound 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 light hatred people 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 sadness self reality Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting. John Twelve Hawks dangerous life-is interesting I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers. John Twelve Hawks news-stories airports drinking If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good. John Twelve Hawks technology worry might 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 back privacy digital world Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free. John Twelve Hawks thoughts without free never Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies. John Twelve Hawks write dystopian believe fiction
