“Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“Democracy requires active participation, and sooner or later someone ‘offers’ to take all the difficult decision-making away from you and your hectic life. But the darknet throws those decisions back onto you. It hard-codes democracy into the DNA of civilization. You upvote and downvote many times a day on things that directly affect your life and the lives of people around you—not just once every few years on things you haven’t got a chance in hell of affecting.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we’re making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population beyond the carrying capacity of the land.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“We basically used oil and aquifer water to temporarily boost the carrying capacity of the land, all for economic growth demanded by Wall Street investors. It’s a crazy system that only makes sense when you foist all the costs onto taxpayers in the form of crop subsidies that benefit agribusiness, and defense spending to secure fossil fuels. We’re basically paying for corporations to seize control of the food supply and dictate to us the terms under which we live.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“It all seems so clear now. Corporate intrusion into public institutions. Corporate domination of culture and media. It happened in plain view, with us cheering on their success as if it reflected well on us. As if it was us.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“You taught me everything I need to know; self-reliance, self-respect, community. Just don't be surprised if I actually put it to use.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“How do you preserve your freedom when the powerful can use software bots to detect dissent and deploy drone aircraft to take out troublemakers? Human beings are increasingly unnecessary to wield power in the modern world.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“So what? So what if everyone cares? What does that do for us? The situation we’re in isn’t going to be solved by angry posts and best fucking wishes. Public outrage has never stopped these bastards.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“nodded. “I see that you’re a first-level Fighter. Which makes it all the more”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
“Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.”
― Daniel Suarez, quote from Freedom™
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“The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don’t need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you’ve got.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, quote from Night Train to Lisbon
“Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Yet even though they were together, she could not stop worrying about how much time they would have-”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Misguided Angel
“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, quote from Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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