"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds"

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Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

Elfriede Jelinek

#Kind Quotes #Construction Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“I told her once I wasnâ€™t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
“I donâ€™t like gambling very much. I donâ€™t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.”
“It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.”
“I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.”
“but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.6
“The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.”
“Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.”
“Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.”

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