In the past few days our little world experienced some turbulence, I would dear and say heavy turbulence,
trying to find its way, searching for a better “identity”.

during this time I have tried to search for guidance, for help in forming my thoughts and feelings, during the research I have “stumbled” upon some essays’ that helped me form my thoughts….

„only individuals have a sense of responsibility.”  Nietzsche


"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of
knowledge."  Stephen Hawking

"One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it You have no certainty, until you try." Sophocles

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge is limited."  Albert Einstein


I add (extract) one of the most interesting essays I have ever read,
The World As I See It - An essay by Albert Einstein, 1931




Michael

While many individuals have differing personal essays in their own "The World As I See It", adding the emotion of anger can simply further bend an illusion of knowledge, the anger comes across better than any other point, people are keen in it's detection.  
Hate is like a useless repairman; called upon in any differing situation, only makes it worse.

An assemblage of hate would be the worst.  DJ's new rules can stop it at the individual.  

Quite a few have mentioned getting to know each other.  

Another Stephen Hawking:

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994).

Thank you, Michael, for starting such an interesting thread!

Kevin - brilliant Hawking quote.  

I think a few people have some of these in their signatures, but I do think these are also appropriate:

Martin Luther King:

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' "

And Winston Churchill:

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."  

Not particularly profound, certainly, but to the point.

Laurie  

I stand corrected. 

Laurie