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“By 2005, Monsanto had filed ninety lawsuits against U.S. farmers for patent infringement, meaning GM genes found in the fields of farmers that had not paid for the right, and Monsanto had been awarded over $15 million. I’ll tell you here and now: We have a screwed-up justice system. These lawsuits and seeds are nothing less than corporate extortion of American farmers, said Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, as reported in the Seed Savers Summer Edition 2005.”
― Janisse Ray, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

“I thought of an old poker players’ expression: If you look around the table and can’t spot the sucker, the sucker is you.”
― Barry Eisler, A Lonely Resurrection

“Lo sai che penso? Che è facile stare insieme quando va tutto bene. Il difficile è quando si devono superare le montagne, fa freddo e tira vento. Allora, forse, per trovare calore, uno si deve fare un poco più vicino. Te lo dice uno che campa nel freddo. E che non ha nessuno per trovare calore.”
― Maurizio de Giovanni, La condanna del sangue: La primavera del commissario Ricciardi

“The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.”
― Glenn Greenwald