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#1

“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: absurdity, depression, drugs, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, psychology, society

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#2

“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: abuse-of-power, anti-psychiatrity, anti-stigma, discrimination, judged, label, labeling, labeling-someone, labelling, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-health-system, mental-illness, perspective, sanity, sickness, society

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#3

“Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.”
― Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

tags: activism, censorship, class, class-warfare, emotions-and-attitude, freedom-of-speech, gender-feminism, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, immigrant-experience, immigrants, insanity, insanity-is-normal, liberal-hypocrisy, liberalism, oppression, oppressors, patronization, patronizing, political-correct-crap, political-correctness, political-insanity, politically-correct, politics, politics-insanity, politics-of-the-united-states, post-feminism, privilege, sensitivity, shits-fucked-up-yo, society, society-thinking, white-privilege

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#4

“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

tags: brainwashing, mental-health, propaganda, society, stress, system, unabomber

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#5

“The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: individualism, left, leftism, leftist, leftists

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#6

“Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

tags: hypersensitivity, inferiority-complex, leftism, postmodernism

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#7

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

tags: knowledge, stillness, transformation

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#8

“We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”
― Yukio Mishima

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#9

“...living is merely the chaos of existence...”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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#10

“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#11

“As they say in the United States: “to be different is to be indecent.” The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this “everybody” is not “everybody.” “Everybody” was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized minorities. Nowadays, “everybody” is the mass alone. Here we have the formidable fact of our times, described without any concealment of the brutality of its features.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

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#12

“To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.”
― Alexis Carrel, Man, The Unknown

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#13

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#14

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#15

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: loneliness

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#16

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

tags: change

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#17

“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
― Charles Manson

tags: government, inspirational, politics

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#18

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

tags: anarchy, coercion, collectivism, control, equality, free-market, freedom, individual-freedom, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, natural-law, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, universal-ethics, voluntaryism

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#19

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#20

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

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#21

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
― Anais Nin

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#22

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination

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#23

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

tags: authors, books, dark, horror, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, minds, quotes, reading, steven-king, writers

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#24

“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

tags: inspirational, truth

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#25

“The desire of the moth for the star”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: romanticism

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#26

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#27

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom

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#28

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”
― Aristotle

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#29

“I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees”
― Emiliano Zapata

tags: kalacaw

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#30

“It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

tags: death

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