Jonah Furci

“Defaulting to truth is a problem. It lets spies and con artists roam free.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

“You live on an island, surrounded by the ocean, and you don’t like seafood?”
“Yes, the irony is not lost on me.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—that there is not time, previous to action, for calculating and weighing the effects of any line of conduct on the general happiness. This is exactly as if any one were to say that it is impossible to guide our conduct by Christianity, because there is not time, on every occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments.”
― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism