They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved.
Chief Pontiac
#502
#437
We may call such a monster the ‘beast of property.’ It now rules the world, making mankind miserable, and gains in cruelty and voracity with the progress of our so called ‘civilization’.
Johann Most
#342
From the dawn of civilisation onwards crowds have always undergone the influence of illusions. It is to the creators of illusions that they have raised more temples, statues, and altars then to any other class of men.
Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd
#324
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Roland Barthes
#275
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Will Durant
#85
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41
The environment is so full of television, party political broadcasts and advertising campaigns that you hardly need to do anything.
J.G. Ballard
#31
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. If you want to be a schmuck, be a schmuck – but don’t wait around for respect from other people – a schmuck is a SCHMUCK.
Frank Zappa
#30
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
#20
Welcome to the real world, where most of the time things don’t go your fucking way.
Ref (the movie)
