“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.” ShouldYearsHeartStatesHappensTodayWantedPoliticalNationsForgetLeaderEconomicReturnHappeningsEuropeWeakFranceGermanyNever Forget Author:Marine Le Pen
“In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.” PeopleWorldTryingKindStillsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesRichEnvironmentHappenedHappeningsProgramEnglandDestroyedPreservesSophisticatedIndigenousRich PeopleIndigenous PeopleRemnantsEnclosure Author:Noam Chomsky
“But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksStatesLawChallengesUnitedUnited StatesHappeningsYears AgoFocusedLaw EnforcementEnforcementFbi Author:Robert Mueller
“Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.” MenMayStatesMomentsAbleDiesCoursesStarsWaitingProcessPoorRichEventsPeriodsHappeningsInstrumentsWitSensesInvisibleWheelsSubtleMatesMechanismButterflyDeceivingSignalsPoor ManTranquilUnrestClusters Author:Clive Barker
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” PeopleWayGivingMeanStatesHappensIndividualSocialFictionImagineSocietyModernConditionsSubjectsEffectsDrugDepressionHappeningsScience FictionToleranceTerroristUnhappyInternalsRemoveUnhappinessIntoleranceTolerateDepressingMathematicianAnarchistNot HappyModern SocietySocial ConditionsUnhappy PeopleAntidepressantsModifying Author:Theodore Kaczynski
“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.” ShouldWellsDoeWarMatterStatesPartyNeededVictoryLimitsMembersHappeningsHatredShould HaveIntelligentExpectedMoodIgnorantTriumphAppropriateMentalityFanaticsCompetentPrevailingIndustriousAdulation Book:1984 Source: 1984