"When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress."

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Source : Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

Paul Virilio

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“Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.”
“Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.”
“I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.”
“There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.”
“Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!”
“Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.”
“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”

Source : Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I know people dont think I work.”

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