Quotes
Authors
Walter Karp

"By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'"

Source : Walter Karp (1992). “Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic”, Franklin Square Pr

Walter Karp

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“Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to lean in a short period of time.”
“What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.”
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”

Source : Franz Kafka (1977). “Letters to friends, family, and editors”, Schocken
“Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.”
“In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.”
“Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.”
“I am an anarchist in my personal life. I try to live my life in a way that I don't need cops or baby-sitters to keep me from infringing on others. But I don't feel we have evolved far enough as a species to make anarchy work in society itself. We still need government to transfer the wealth from those who have too much to those who have too little, to make sure important projects get done, and keep territorial humans from screwing over and killing each other.”

Source : Address to the US Green Party, 2000.
“I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.”

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