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At the same time, completely unprincipled power politics could not be played until a mass of people was available who were free of all principles and so large numerically that they surpassed the ability of state and society to take care of
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“That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.”
― On Immunity: An Inoculation
― On Immunity: An Inoculation
“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”
― Undoing Gender
― Undoing Gender
“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
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“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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