“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Shaping the principles of policy debate, I learned, is often the first step toward winning it.”
― The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
― The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
“I spit on fools who fail to include breasts in their metaphysics, // Star-gazers who have not enumerated them among the moons of the earth”
― New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
― New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
“Increasingly, municipalities (and companies contracted by municipalities) are behaving like businesses, viewing residents as potential sources of revenue, as well as viewing the generation of revenue via fines as a form of productivity.”
― Carceral Capitalism
― Carceral Capitalism
“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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