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"Cory Doctorow my beloved, thank you for always maintaining your optimistic worldview in the face of doom and despair and also for coining a funny word that I can use in very specific academic settings" — Dec 15, 2025 11:45PM
"Cory Doctorow my beloved, thank you for always maintaining your optimistic worldview in the face of doom and despair and also for coining a funny word that I can use in very specific academic settings" — Dec 15, 2025 11:45PM
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"If this book ends up being really good I still won't be able to recommend it because it just assumes you're deep into Warcraft lore already" — Dec 12, 2025 01:45PM
"If this book ends up being really good I still won't be able to recommend it because it just assumes you're deep into Warcraft lore already" — Dec 12, 2025 01:45PM
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"If anyone asks, I'm reading this because it is a well written dystopia that says a lot about our society and totally not because there was a sexist meme disparaging how women's fiction is all about breeding and this was the only book I hadn't read and I'm going for a completionist run out of spite" — Nov 27, 2025 01:17AM
"If anyone asks, I'm reading this because it is a well written dystopia that says a lot about our society and totally not because there was a sexist meme disparaging how women's fiction is all about breeding and this was the only book I hadn't read and I'm going for a completionist run out of spite" — Nov 27, 2025 01:17AM
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
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“It is kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage.”
― 86―エイティシックス―Ep.2 ―ラン・スルー・ザ・バトルフロント―〈上〉
― 86―エイティシックス―Ep.2 ―ラン・スルー・ザ・バトルフロント―〈上〉
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”
― The State and Revolution
― The State and Revolution
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