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No. 23610
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“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” -Ted Kaczynski
“While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.” -Richard Stallman
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” -Bjarne Stroustrup
“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.” -Edward Snowden
“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.” -Benjamin Franklin
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” -People argue about the origins of this quote, but I like it regardless of who said it
“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.” -Nikola Tesla
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” -Henry David Thoreau
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” -George Orwell
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” -Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” -Ray Bradbury
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” -Aldous Huxley
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” -Terence McKenna
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.” -E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops
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