“The tendency for self to be perceived as effective in achieving desired ends while avoiding undesired ones. ” (Anthony G. Greenwald and Steven J. Breckler )

by: George Bernard Shaw, 1903

“There are limits to what a mule or an ass will stand; but Man will suffer himself to be degraded until his vileness becomes so loathsome to his oppressors that they themselves are forced to reform it. ” (Don Juan)

“…I had become a new person; and those who knew the old person laughed at me. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. ” (Tanner)

by: John Taylor Gatto

The method of logic used by Hegel and adapted by Marx to observable social and economic processes: it is based on the principle that an idea or event (thesis) generates its opposite (antithesis), leading to a reconciliation of opposites (synthesis) (www.yourdictionary.com)

by: H.G. Wells

by: Daniel Gilbert