“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
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“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“I don’t believe in magic,” the young boy said, and the old man smiled, “You will, when you see her.”
― Love Her Wild
― Love Her Wild
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
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“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
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