Jack > Jack's Quotes

“Department stores, hotels, and amusement parks began to dot the landscape, and by World War I, buying was seen as the road to happiness. Money became the measure of everything, friendship and religion included.”
― Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture

“For a zoned-out, stupefied populace, “democracy” will be nothing more than the right to shop, or to choose between Wendy’s and Burger King, or to stare at CNN and think that this managed infotainment is actually the news. Corporate hegemony, the triumph of global democracy/consumerism based on an American model, is the collapse of American civilization. So a large-scale transformation is indeed going on, but it is one that makes triumph indistinguishable from disintegration.”
― Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture

“Henry Ford said that “Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence”.”
― Guibert del Marmol, No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy

“Tomorrow’s companies will need to nurture authentic leadership over charisma; leaders serving rather than wielding power,”
― Guibert del Marmol, No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy

“Not content with simply dreaming about a better world, they take an active part in building it.”
― Guibert del Marmol, No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy

“Operation ARTICHOKE were intent on leaving no stone unturned in an effort to deliver the ultimate truth drug.”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“CIA documents indicate that LSD was employed as an aid to interrogation on an operational basis from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s.”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“Ironically, Dr. Cameron was a member of the Nuremberg tribunal that heard the case against Nazi war criminals”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“The CIA later found out that Sandoz had never produced LSD in quantities even remotely resembling ten kilograms. Apparently only ten milligrams were for sale, but a CIA contact in Switzerland mistook a kilogram, 1000 grams, for a milligram (.001 grams), which would explain the huge discrepancy.”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“Operation Midnight Climax, in which drug-addicted prostitutes were hired to pick up men from local bars and bring them back to a CIA-financed bordello.”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“They believed that challenging entrenched authority entailed a concerted attempt to alter the institutions and policy-making apparatus that had been usurped by a self-serving power elite;”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“The sound of the in-crowd was no longer folk or jazz but the bouncing rhythms of rock and roll”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“The new hipsters had cast aside the syndrome of alienation and despair that saddled many of their beatnik forebears.”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“also free from closemindedness, obscurantism and bigotry.”
― Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

“Van Vogt’s The World of Null-A—there was something about that which absolutely fascinated me.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“DICK: I think philosophically I fit in with some of the very late pre-Socratic people around the time of Zeno and Diogenes—the Cynics, in the Greek sense. I am inevitably persuaded by every argument that is brought to bear.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science,”
― Lynne McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

“1940s by neuroanatomist Harold S. Burr from Yale University, who studied and measured electrical fields around living things, specifically salamanders. Burr discovered that salamanders possessed an energy field shaped like an adult salamander, and that this blueprint even existed in an unfertilized egg.13”
― Lynne McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

“He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.”
― Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story