Othello Socratic Seminar Prep

What is the meaning of the following quotes? After that, go back and expand on the answers. Give your thoughts on the quote, use examples when you can and refer to books, TV, movies, family experiences, classroom experiences, or social experiences to support your commentary.

1. “You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.”—Gary Allan

2. “A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”—Jean Baudrillard

3. “The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”– Ruth Rendell

4. “The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”—-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

5. “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”—-Jane Austen, Emma

6. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”—- Walter Scott, Marmion

7. “Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”—Khaled Hosseini

8. “Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”– Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

9. “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” –Bertrand Russell

10. “Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.”– Samuel Johnson

11. “It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.”–Criss Jami, Killosophy

12. “I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”—-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays