Quotes
Authors
Douglas Coupland

"If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now."

-- Douglas Coupland

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“Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.”

Source : Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
“Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.”
“I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.”
“Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.”

Source : The Amnesty International Report, p. 22, 2002.
“Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.”
“Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.”
“I donâ€™t think youâ€™re supposed to be able to get at that information,â€ said Leslie. â€œDonâ€™t look,â€ said Goldstein, peering over Charlesâ€™s shoulder. â€œWe donâ€™t know anything about illegal hacking.â€ He whistled cheerily.”
“Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.”

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