"In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language."

-- Kathy Acker

#Lying Quotes #Political Quotes #Warfare Quotes

“Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what.”
“Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.”
“Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.”
“Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.”
“To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.”

Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press
“The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president”
“A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.”

Source : David Bodanis (1988). “The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days”, Touchstone Books
“Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?”

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