"The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine."

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Source : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Theodore Kaczynski

#Long Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Cogs Quotes

“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”

Source : Robert Baden-Powell's letter, September 1940.
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

Source : Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.335, Simon and Schuster
“As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.”
“So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.”
“We're almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn't caught her around the waist and pulled her upright. "You must have been far away," he said laughing.”
“I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.”
“I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.”

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