“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“To become a Catholic is not to leave off thinking, but to learn how to think.”
― The Catholic Church and Conversion
― The Catholic Church and Conversion
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
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