There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
A lot of times, the real motivation is different from what people say is the real motivation. For example, buying expensive headphones, they are not really to make you hear better. You want to signal to the world that you are affluent and you have status and good taste.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Kada država počne sebe da naziva "domovinom" i "otadžbinom" znajte da je žedna krvi.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point…
When I was a kid, I used to think that people in the government could break the law and pretty much do whatever they wanted.
Then I grew up and learned that wasn’t really true.
Then I grew up some more and realized I was actually right the first time.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals!
How come it is easier for us to imagine the end of all life on earth than to imagine a modest change in our economic order?
There is a difference between a consumer—who passively receives the information that they are spoon fed—and a citizen—who engages with society, asks questions, does research, and works towards making a difference in their neighborhood, city, and country.
The most common beginning of disaster was a sense of security.