“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”
― Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
― Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
“If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.”
― Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
― Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
“Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.”
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“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
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