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Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

~ Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler Cops Philosophy Police Predation Protect Sheep Sheepdog Wolves

Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.

~ Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler Erroneous Beliefs Ignorance Justification Manipulation Of Facts Perspective Self Destruction

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'Tatsu.

~ Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler Cancer Cynicism Death And Sickness Irony

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

~ Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler Death Fear Life Lessons Lonely

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

~ Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler Truth Honesty Job

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

~ Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler Want Surveillance Without

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

~ Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler Responsibility Personal
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