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“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”
― John Maynard Keynes

“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Ah darling, goodness, I think, never brought any one out. Goodness, when it's real, precisely, rather keeps people IN.”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“But if we may perish by cracks in things that we don't know.”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried”
― Pierre Bourdieu

“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.”
― Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“[Advanced souls] know that they cannot change the system and they don't wish to. They are content to enjoy themselves in the Earth Life System and the only influence they exert is to maximize their experience.”
― Robert Monroe

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Language is the square hole we keep trying to jam the round peg of life into. It's the most insane thing we do.”
― Robert Coover, Gerald's Party

“The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is divine chaos.”
― Muzwot

“If we do not respect Nature:

She WILL remind us [in no uncertain terms] ...”
― MuzWot

“The timing of even the smallest act of your life lived as mantra and ritual can alter everything. Therefore - life as ritual, art as mantra.”
― MuzWot, Damn! Meta-Novelty: The Surrealist Anti-Novel To Heal The World

“One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas