top of page
"To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Identity quotes

"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"

"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

"A Christian's mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community."

"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."

"And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts."

"Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth."

"By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity, I want other lights than my own to show all his facets."
Explore more quotes by David Mitchell

"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."

"This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator."

"Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better."

"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."

"Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous."

"I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans."

"Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth " I rap my knuckles on the table " "you'll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue."
bottom of page