6 Quotes by Phillip DePoy

No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of shorthand in understanding people, and we think it works, and we use it to assess, categorize, and then, very often, dismiss people. It's the basis for stereotyping, profiling, and several other very sorry words that end in i-n-g.

Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet.

Given my upbringing and my life in general, it’s not so hard to imagine that my mind would capsize eventually.

I had learned many times that the more you try to get people to deny their illusions, the stronger the illusions can become. But if you indulge those delusions instead, they often fall apart on their own.

The Internet is to our intellectual life what the universal unconscious is to our psychological life. In fact, the Internet is the new universal unconscious. It’s not even a metaphor anymore.

It happened in the autumn of the year, when murder feels at home, because so many other things are dying.