"The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun."

-- Joseph J. Romm

#Suicide Quotes #Gun Quotes #Climate Quotes

“I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.”

Source : "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.
“If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.”
“Whoâ€™s that? Thatâ€™s the King. Whoâ€™s he? The Duke. Whoâ€™s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Ummâ€¦how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.”
“Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.”
“Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.166, Macmillan
“There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.
“If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.”
“As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.”

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS

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