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“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
“The tool enables man to conquer. But, man, dost thou not know there is no more victory which is thy victory? The victory of our days belongs to the tool.”
― The Technological Society
― The Technological Society
“Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”
― Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
― Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
“The individual is in a dilemma: either he decides to safeguard his freedom of choice, chooses to use traditional , personal, moral, or empirical means, thereby entering into competition with a power against which there is no efficacious defense and before which he must suffer defeat; or he decides to accept technical necessity, in which case he will himself by the victor, but only by submitting irreparably to technical slavery. In effect he has no freedom of choice.”
― The Technological Society
― The Technological Society
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