"We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction."

-- Andrew Niccol

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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

Source : New Scientist 21 May 1964
“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.”
“My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.”
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
“You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.”

Source : "Fictional character: Sonmi~451". "Cloud Atlas", 2012.
“Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than Iâ€™d ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times Iâ€™d ever seen Hoyt alone.”
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
“Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.”

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