"This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place."

-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Age Quotes #World Quotes #Politician Quotes

“Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.”
“I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.”
“Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.”
“And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.”
“I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like youâ€™ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.”
“Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.”
“I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (2013). “On the Organic Law of Change”, p.263, Harvard University Press
“The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.”

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