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Bertrand Russell

"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so."

Source : Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.45, Routledge

Bertrand Russell

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“There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.”

Source : 1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.
“Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary requirements of every member of society, and would no longer have in view the special interest of privileged minorities within the social union.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.1, AK Press
“I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.”
“You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.”
“The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.”
“I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.”
“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.178, Macmillan
“Lose your soul in God's Love... I swear there is no other way !”

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