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“television in virtually every living room. Apparently some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided only that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.”
― The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II
― The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II
“Power gained through bloodshed will drown its wielder in its own river. Those who play God forget they too are mortal until death knocks, unmerciful and unstoppable, reminding them that no throne can shield a decaying soul.”
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“My conclusion: It was just that Joel, Elliot, Sheryl, and Mark didn’t give a fuck. Joel was a veteran of George W. Bush’s White House. An issue in Syria would be met by a wave of his hand and, “Drop a bomb on it. I don’t care.” A joke, but also who he was. He was the man in charge of those countries for Facebook. And when it came to Myanmar, those people just didn’t matter to him. He couldn’t be bothered. There was no greater principle ever offered. People outside big companies sometimes wonder and speculate about how these sorts of decisions happen. This is how it happened at Facebook. And it wasn’t just Joel. None of the senior leaders—Elliot or Sheryl or Mark—thought about this enough to put in place the kinds of systems we’d need, in Myanmar or other countries. They apparently didn’t care. These were sins of omission. It wasn’t the things they did; it was the things they didn’t do.”
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism; there is no better way to stifle that criticism than to attack any isolated voice, any raiser of new doubts, as a profane violator of the wisdom of his ancestors.”
― Anatomy of the State
― Anatomy of the State
“Orwell is justly admired for his grasp of the essential truth that tyranny is incompatible with liberty. There is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship, he taught us, whether it be a dictatorship of the left or of the right, or the white man's burden of imperial dictatorship.”
― Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-first Century, Library Edition
― Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-first Century, Library Edition
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