The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Malcolm GladwellCourage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.
Malcolm GladwellThe religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.
Malcolm Gladwell