"All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness."

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Source : Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer (1997). “Pure war”, Semiotext

Paul Virilio

#Military Quotes #Class Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.”
“If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.”

Source : "Rorting data is hell, Nino" by Andrew Bolt, www.heraldsun.com.au. November 24, 2009.
“All I've learned in today's Shakespeare class is: Sometimes you have to fall in love with the wrong person just so you can find the right person. A more useful lesson would've been: Sometimes the right person doesn't love you back. Or sometimes the right person is gay. Or sometimes you just aren't the right person. Thanks for nothing, Shakespeare.”

Source : Jackson Pearce (2010). “As You Wish”, p.1, Harper Collins
“All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!”

Source : FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Jul 04, 2012
“I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.”
“For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.”
“In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.”
“I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.”

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