Awareness Quotes

"Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our viewpoint."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Your eyes can deceive you; don't trust them."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Mos Eisley, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Women always figure out the truth. Always."

- Han Solo

"Never underestimate a droid."

- General Leia Organa

"You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"It’s a trap!"

- Admiral Ackbar

"That's no moon."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions."

- Tariq Ramadan

"Don’t let the beard fool you. He’s a child!"

- Stu Price

"Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants."

- Edward T. Hall

"We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no."

- Nyle DiMarco

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."

- Noam Chomsky

"Representation matters. And it's about more than just actors on a screen. It's about snacks, it's about food, it's about culture, in every possible way."

- Simu Liu

"Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner."

- Rick Wilson

"A mind cannot be independent of culture."

- Lev Vygotsky

"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."

- Carl Bernstein

"its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him."

- Naomi Wolf

"Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it."

- Naomi Wolf

"Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together."

- Naomi Wolf

"Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes."

- Ulrich Beck

"When the sun is out, and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May."

- Robert Frost

"No, Rose, they are not breathing. And they have no arms or legs… Where are they? You know what? If we come across somebody with no arms or legs, do we bother resuscitating them? I mean, what quality of life do we have there?"

- Michael Scott

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."

- Paulo Coelho

"I don’t understand. We have a day honoring Martin Luther King, but he didn’t even work here."

- Michael Scott

"There were these huge bins of clothes and everybody was rifling through them like crazy. And I grabbed one and it fit! So, I don’t think that this is totally just a woman’s suit. At the very least it’s bisexual."

- Michael Scott

"Well, apparently in the medicine community, negative means good. Which makes absolutely no sense. In the real world community, that would… be… chaos."

- Michael Scott

"Close your eyes. Picture a convict. What’s he wearing? Nothing special, baseball cap on backwards, baggy pants… he says something ordinary like… ‘yo, thats shizzle.’ Okay. Now slowly open your eyes again. Who are you picturing? A black man? Wrong. That was a white woman. Surprised? Well, shame on you."

- Michael Scott

"Jan is cold. If she was sitting across from you on a train and she wasn’t moving, you might think she was dead."

- Michael Scott

"Any man who says he totally understands women is a fool. Because they are un-understandable."

- Michael Scott