John Twelve Hawks Quotations

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

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

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.