"There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it."

-- Thomas Ferguson

#Nice Quotes #Government Quotes #Iran Quotes

“Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?”
“The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.”
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
“There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.”
“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”
“And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“...I love Dr.Ducks Ax Wax ... Glossily Yours ....”
“That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox . . .”

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