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“It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction that product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.”
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
“The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that what Roche’s tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of “being female.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“I would submit, sir, that you and your family are addicted to money.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“Online reward mechanisms beg to substitute for offline ones, and then overtake them. This is why everyone tries to look so hot and well-traveled on Instagram; this is why everyone seems so smug and triumphant on Facebook; this is why, on Twitter, making a righteous political statement has come to seem, for many people, like a political good in itself. This practice is often called “virtue signaling,”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
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