"One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense."

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Source : Evgeny Morozov (2014). “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”, p.135, PublicAffairs

Evgeny Morozov

#Thinking Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they vote for you.”
“That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .”
“Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.”
“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.285, Penguin UK
“I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.”

Source : "Democrats Hope for 'Abramoff Effect' in Montana". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. September 27, 2006.
“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press
“I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.”
“I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.”

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