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Fred’s words “If you don’t want to do no revolutionary act, I don’t want myself on your mind” speak to us today. The United States is becoming a neo-fascist state where white supremacy and anti-immigrant hysteria provide the electoral
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“You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers -
One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders.
Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!”
― Children of Dune
One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders.
Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!”
― Children of Dune
“In short, those who insist that we perceive the past
“purely on its own terms”—assuming that were even possible—
often forget that this usually means seeing it through the eyes of
its predominant class, the class that practically monopolized the
recorded commentary of that day.”
― The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
“purely on its own terms”—assuming that were even possible—
often forget that this usually means seeing it through the eyes of
its predominant class, the class that practically monopolized the
recorded commentary of that day.”
― The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
“Indeed, the path to a life without empathy is a long and painful one, full of bartered humanity sold at a steep discount.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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