“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
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“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”
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“The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.”
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy
“It is not American Jews who have betrayed their Israeli cousins. It is the Netanyahu-led Israeli government that has betrayed Jews outside Israel, by aligning itself with nationalist parties in countries like Poland and Hungary, who are hostile to the ideals that make it possible for Jews in the diaspora to live free of persecution.”
― The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
― The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s the faces of the white men in the crowd. There’s the photo of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana in 1930, in which a white man can be seen grinning at the camera as he tenderly holds the hand of his wife or girlfriend.”
― The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
― The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
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