"History doesn't repeat, but it surely rhymes." -Mark Twain
"Most of the literature on the (concentration) camps has tended to stress the role of the camps as places of execution. Regrettably, few ethical or religious thinkers have paid attention to the highly significant political fact that the camps where in reality a new form of human society." -R. L. Rubenstein, The Cunning of History.
"Problems in human engineering will receive the same genius the last century gave to engineering in more material forms." -Thomas A. Edison
"If evolution cannot rationally be viewed as a way to get from ape-like creatures to man, then cannot the use of evolutionism as an ideological belief system get us from man to an ape-like creature? Such a capability would be of enormous value in politics." -Peter Medawar, The Future of Man.
"You are being programmed." -Chamath Palihapitiya, former facebook executive.
"In the midst of these long range trends - there was a lag in the recognition that a complex society demands a sophisticated understanding among all of its citizens." -Michael Marien, The Discovery and Decline of the Ignorant Society.
"Historical developments in the 20th century have actually placed 'emergency powers' at the heart of the rule of law as a means of administering capitalist modernity." -Mark Neocleous, The Problem with Normality.
"There is no more opportune moment for radical change than in the aftermath of a world catastrophe." -Warren Wagar
"Human mobility will increasingly define the 21st century." -Dimitris Auramopoulos
"Our world is headed into a perfect storm of an interconnected financial, ecological, and social crisis." -Ian Johnson, Club of Rome.
"Utopian speculations...must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope." -Norman O. Brown, Life against Death, 1959.
