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Jeremy Rifkin

"The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and now increasingly distributing renewable energies, they're measuring politics in terms of a struggle between centralized, hierarchical, top-down and closed and proprietary, versus distributed, open, collaborative, transparent. This shift, from hierarchical to lateral power, is going to change the way we live, the way we educate our children, and the way we govern the world."

-- Jeremy Rifkin

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“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”

Source : "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.
“I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.”
“The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too.”

Source : Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.159, Arktos
“For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1944). “Watch on the Rhine: Acting Ed. Play in Three Acts”
“I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.”
“Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you”
“I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.”
“And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're very dismayed about it .”

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