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“everything else you guys are pushing, it sounds perfect, sounds progressive, but it carries with it more control, more central tracking of everything we do.”
― Anonymous

“He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn’t a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor’s palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.”
― Pierre Seel, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror