John Twelve Hawks

“When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.”

“When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.”

“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

“Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.”

“(...) I wanted to drink a decent glass of wine in the evening with good friends.""Sounds like a modest goal.""Yes, but even a small wish like that has implications. It means a community with free time, a group with enough income to buy the Merlot, and a general desire to enjoy the small pleasures of life. (...) In this context, a glass of wine becomes a revolutionary statement.”

“Virtue is admirable, but boring.”

“Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. ”

“You don´t need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're beeing watched. (...) Punishment isn't necessary, but the inevitability of punishment has to be programmed into the brain.”

“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.”

“If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.”

“Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.”

“Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects.But now a significant change is about to occur.In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.”

“Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.”