Shees Hassan

“Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps.”
― John Perkins, The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration would later show, a terrorist attack.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism