“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.—Edward O. Wilson”
― Extinction
― Extinction
“She’d have been less surprised if he told her monkeys were experimenting with nuclear fusion in the closet where the Sheriff’s department kept the body bags and crime-scene tape.”
― Her Deadly Homecoming
― Her Deadly Homecoming
“Modern communication isn’t about truth, it’s about a resonant narrative. The myth about PR is that you will educate and inform people. No. The public wants to be told in a story who to like and who to hate.”
― Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
― Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
“horrible instinctive part of you, is almost happy because now you will get a bite-and-a-half-size sliver of bread today instead of just a bite size. Those who believe that we are anything other than animals are blind. All humans are savages. The ones who are well fed are just lazier. They don’t need to kill to get their food. So they dress up and find so-called loftier pursuits that make them believe that they are somehow above it all. Such nonsense. Savages are just hungrier.”
― The Woods
― The Woods
“Actually, she’d made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.”
― The Lion
― The Lion
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