“But that is who we are, that is where we come from. We are the offspring of metropolitan annihilation and destruction, of the war of all against all, of the conflict of each individual with every other individual, of a system governed by fear, of the compulsion to produce, of the profit of one to the detriment of others, of the division of people into men and women, young and old, sick and healthy, foreigners and Germans, and of the struggle for prestige. Where do we come from? From isolation in individual row-houses, from the suburban concrete cities, from prison cells, from the asylums and special units, from media brainwashing, from consumerism, from corporal punishment, from the ideology of nonviolence, from depression, from illness, from degradation, from humiliation, from the debasement of human beings, from all the people exploited by imperialism.”
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“I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.”
― Ubik
― Ubik
“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”
― Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
― Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
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