Notable Quotable 197

Jan 31, 2024

Technique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being. The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man's very essence. The milieu in which he lives is no longer his. He must adapt himself, as though the world were new, to a universe for which he was not created. He was made to go six kilometers an hour, and he goes a thousand. He was made to eat when he was hungry and to sleep when he was sleepy; instead, he obeys a clock. He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.

- Jacques Ellul

What we are seeing is tip-toe totalitarianism in the West, with 9/11 the key to understanding this.

- Jim Corr

There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive.

- John McAfee

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

- Carl Jung

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

- Albert Einstein

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

A wise man once said nothing.

- unknown

If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

- Edgar Allan Poe

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

- Robert Anton Wilson