"Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Kirkpatrick Sale

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Technology Quotes

“I always wanted to be a hairdresser.”
“The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.”
“Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.”
“Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.”
“Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.”
“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powersâ€¦ They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.”
“Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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