"In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology."

-- Sam Keen

#Thinking Quotes #Technology Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?”
“A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.”

Source : FaceBook post by Larry Elder from Dec 04, 2015
“What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.”
“A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.”

Source : Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe
“It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.”
“Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.”
“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression. ... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking. ... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.”
“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”

Source : LEN DEIGHTON (1967). “AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE”

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