“If most people are mentally ill, then truth is not truth, but simply a stubborn form of social deviance.”
“I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Our profession is the profession of justice." [It is thus that the prejudices of men universally teach them to colour the most desperate cause to which they have determined to adhere.] "We, who are thieves without a licence, are at open war with another set of men who are thieves according to law.”
Source: The Adventures of Caleb Williams: Or, Things as They Are
“Big Brother is not watching you; Big Brother is you, watching.”
Source: The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture
“In order to manipulate humans, there is no need to physically hook brains to computers. For thousands of years prophets, poets, and politicians have used language to manipulate and reshape society. Now computers are learning how to do it. And they won’t need to send killer robots to shoot us. They could manipulate human beings to pull the trigger.”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Literature used to shape minds — especially poetry. It formed a person’s inner world, their spirituality. Now we live in an era that glorifies ignorance, and the frightening majority is ruled by mediocrity.”
“A man who has not known meditation lives in the dark night of the soul. He has not experienced the inner light. And if you are full of darkness inside your life is bound to remain miserable, because your actions will come out of your darkness. Your actions are bound to be wrong. Your life will be that of
stumbling from one error to another error.
People carry mountains of misery, because they have not tried to bring any light into their inner source. And it is easy to do that,
but people have just never been told to go into themselves.
The society, the establishment and the vested interests are against it, because they don't want people who are full of inner light. The
politicians, the people in power and the rich are all against it, because a man who has his own inner light cannot be manipulated, controlled and exploited.
He will always do the right things. He has his own intelligence, and he is ready to live according to his own inner light. Even a single moment of freedom is more valuable than to sacrifice his whole life, because in that single moment he comes to know God.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Спектакль досконало опанував цю техніку: спершу суспільство втрачає будь-яке уявлення про теперішнє, а згодом забувається все, що хоч якось, нехай і неповно, було осмислено про минуле.”
Source: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
“Глупота сьогодні здобула всесвітню повагу, і з неї вже не можна насміхатися. Та й, виглядає, сміятися вже нікому.”
Source: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
“Sidenote: In my expereince, the 'silent majority' is rarely either of those things.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship