Thomas Harris

“You have time to do what I’m hiring you for, Case, but that’s all. Do the job and I can inject you with an enzyme that will dissolve the bond without opening the sacs. Then you’ll need a blood change. Otherwise, the sacs melt and you’re back where I found you. So you see, Case, you need us. You need us as badly as you did when we scraped you up from the gutter.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science.”
― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Most physicians and patients believe disease risk is set by genetics. This is false, but also the most common excuse doctors give patients when we do not know the answer. We just blame it on genetics and hope you’re satisfied. Don’t be. We learned this from the studies by Nir Barzilai, MD on super centenarians at Albert Einstein Medical College. Studies on people over 100 years old showed they were all found to harbor most of the bad genes we already know about. What was very interesting, however, was that the bad genes were turned off in these people. The ultimate arbiter of a long healthy life is the expression of our genes-whether they are turned on or off. This is called the epigenetic expression of disease.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor.”
― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism