In woman, a slave and a tyrant have all too long been concealed. For that reason, woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knows only love.
In a woman’s love is injustice and blindness towards all that she does not love. And in the enlightened love of a  woman, too, there is still the unexpected attack and lightning and night, along with the light.
Woman is not yet capable of friendship. But tell me, you men, which of you is yet capable of friendship?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

«يقولُ اللَّهُ تَعالَى: أنا عِنْدَ ظَنِّ عَبْدِي بي، وأنا معهُ إذا ذَكَرَنِي، فإنْ ذَكَرَنِي في نَفْسِهِ ذَكَرْتُهُ في نَفْسِي، وإنْ ذَكَرَنِي في مَلَإٍ ذَكَرْتُهُ في مَلَإٍ خَيْرٍ منهمْ، وإنْ تَقَرَّبَ إلَيَّ شِبرًا تَقَرَّبْتُ إلَيْهِ ذِراعًا، وإنْ تَقَرَّبَ إلَيَّ ذِراعًا تَقَرَّبْتُ إلَيْهِ باعًا، وإنْ أتانِي مَشيًا أتَيْتُهُ هَرْوَلَةً.»

يا ابن آدمَ خَلَقتُكَ لِلعِبَادةَ فَلا تَلعَب ,وَقسَمتُ لَكَ رِزقُكَ فَلا تَتعَب ,فَإِن رَضِيتَ بِمَا قَسَمتُهُ لَكَ أَرَحتَ قَلبَكَ وَبَدنَكَ ،وكُنتَ عِندِي مَحمُودًا ,وإِن لَم تَرضَ بِمَا قَسَمتُهُ لَكَ فَوَعِزَّتِي وَجَلالِي لأُسَلِّطَنَّ عَلَيكَ الدُنيَا تَركُضُ فِيهَا رَكضَ الوُحوش فِي البَريَّةَ ،ثُمَّ لاَ يَكُونُ لَكَ فِيهَا إِلا مَا قَسَمتُهُ لَكَ ،وَكُنتَ عِندِي مَذمُومَا.

حديث قدسي (مختلف عليه)

Culture consists of massive collections of complex skills and knowledge which are transferred from person to person through two core mediums, language and imitation. We would be nothing without our savant-like ability to imitate others. Accurate imitation, in turn, may depend on the uniquely human ability to “adopt another’s point of view”—both visually and metaphorically.

— The Tell-tale Brain

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

— Winston Churchill

The death of the "liberal individual"
By Yanis Varoufakis

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If you want a taste of dystopia, you should read 'Technofeudalism,' 'Psychopolitics,' and 'Brave New World' together.
They describe the same issues from entirely different points of view; one is economic, the other is philosophical/psychological, and the third is a novel.

Damn, we're so fucked and nobody sees an issue with that

In the social networks [of the late-modern individual], the function of “friends” is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity.

Today’s crisis of freedom stems from the fact that the operative technology of power does not negate or repress freedom so much as exploit it.

— Psychopolitics