“I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don't
care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's meaningless. ”
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care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's meaningless. ”
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“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).”
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
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“ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
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ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.”
― Alphaville
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
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ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.”
― Alphaville
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