"Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information."

-- Jean Baudrillard

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“With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.”
“I still look at myself and want to improve.”

Source : "David Beckham: One-on-One". Questions from FourFourTwo readers, www.fourfourtwo.com. February 1, 2006.
“Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.”

Source : Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.301, University of Chicago Press
“This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.”
“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”

Source : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.22, Manchester University Press
“My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
“[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.”

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