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“You should admit your situation.
There would be more dignity in it.
- You go to hell.
- All right.
Let me ask you something.
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
- Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
- You mean the nature of this conversation?
- I mean the nature of you.”
― No Country for Old Men
There would be more dignity in it.
- You go to hell.
- All right.
Let me ask you something.
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
- Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
- You mean the nature of this conversation?
- I mean the nature of you.”
― No Country for Old Men
“Save all humans, kill the planet.”
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“Competition is a sin.”
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“Conspiracy is unnecessary, when everyone thinks the same.
― George Draffan, via: Derrick Jensen - Endgame, Volume 1”
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― George Draffan, via: Derrick Jensen - Endgame, Volume 1”
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“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen.
What makes it possible
for a totalitarian (or any other) dictatorship to rule
is that people are not informed;
how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies,
but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed,
and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history.
On the receiving end you get not only one lie —
a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days —
but you get a great number of lies,
depending on how the political wind blows.
And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind.
It is deprived not only of its capacity to act
but also of its capacity to think and to judge.
And with such a people you can then do what you please.
-- Hannah Arendt, interview with Roger Errera, 1973”
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What makes it possible
for a totalitarian (or any other) dictatorship to rule
is that people are not informed;
how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies,
but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed,
and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history.
On the receiving end you get not only one lie —
a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days —
but you get a great number of lies,
depending on how the political wind blows.
And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind.
It is deprived not only of its capacity to act
but also of its capacity to think and to judge.
And with such a people you can then do what you please.
-- Hannah Arendt, interview with Roger Errera, 1973”
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