"Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened."

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Jean Baudrillard

#Moving Quotes #Assuming Quotes #Catastrophe Quotes

“I'm a traditional wife in every sense.”
“Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.”
“Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.”
“I canâ€™t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.”
“I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.”
“How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?”
“It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.”

Source : Henry George, A. C. Auchmuty (1908). “Gems from Henry George: being memorable passages from the writings and addresses of the author of "Progress and poverty"”
“Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection”

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