"The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy."

-- Paul Virilio

#Real Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.”
“Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.”
“I am completely Socratic.”
“One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1820). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker”, p.161
“I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.”
“As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?”
“Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them.”
“The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.”

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