"Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism."

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Source : Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso

Nick Cohen

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“At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”
“Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.”

Source : Henry L. Stimson's diary statement on the WWII Internment of Japanese Americans, February 10, 1942.
“Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?”
“The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.”
“I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.”
“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”
“Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what about psychosomatic wellness?”
“In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.”

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