"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable."

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Source : "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore J. Kaczynski, ("Control of Human Behavior", item 145), 1995.

Theodore Kaczynski

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“I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.”
“In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.”

Source : Interview With Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.
“Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.
“I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.”
“I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.”
“Humility is royalty without a crown.”
“Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.”

Source : Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School”, p.117, Profile Books
“A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.”

Source : Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U.S. 233, (251), 1936.

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