Dalal A.

“ان هدف الحرب الاساسي هو انزال الدمار ليس بالضرورة بحياة الناس بل بنتاج العمل الانساني فالحرب هي السبيل لتبديد واهدار موارد كان من شأنها لو استخدمت في ما ينفع الجماهير العريضة ان ترتد عليهم بالخير والرفاهية، وان تجعلهم على المدى الطويل اكثر وعيا وادراكاً للامور من حولهم، وحتى اذا لم يتم تدمير ما انتج من اسلحة في حرب فعلية فإن عملية تصنيعها تبقى في حد ذاتها طريقة لاستنفاد الجهد البشري دون انتاج اي شيء يمكن ان يعود بالنفع على الناس.”
― جورج اورويل

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Macroeconomics people...are often wrong because of extreme complexity in the system they wish to understand”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

“In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make. That is why Nietzsche called the idea of eternal return the heaviest of burdens.
If eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness.
But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the more real and truthful they become.
Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.
What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?
...That is the question. The only certainty is: the lightness/weight opposition is the most mysterious, most ambiguous of all.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being