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“We're all hurtling towards death. Yet here we are, for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die. Each of us secretly believing we won't.”
― Synecdoche, New York
― Synecdoche, New York
“Now, the popular perception certainly is that violence is greater today-but that's mostly propaganda: that's just a part of the whole effort to make people frightened, so that they'll abandon their rights.”
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“Nihilists... F#$% me. I mean say what you will about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it's an ethos”
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“I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it's an infinite wastebasket-but at some point you're going to run into the reality, which is that that isn't true.”
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
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