Jay Stoos

“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. And this comes from the realization that there are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly inane, we may actually on occasion feel insane for not believing them; and that is probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt we self-doubt, we convince ourselves into lame passivity and blind acceptance, we tell ourselves, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“There are advantages to being labeled the victim. You are listened to, paid attention to. Sympathy is bestowed upon you.”
― Jessa Crispin, Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

“As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.”
― Souad Mekhennet, I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad