“A human being is like a television set with millions of channels…. We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.”

Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 116

Source: Prozac Nation

The Value of Science (1955)

Closing lines of his address to the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, in July 2000. <br class="br">Source: Nkosi&#x27;s speech at Nkosi&#x27;s Haven http://www.nkosi.iafrica.com/index.html

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline

Cooperation, Terrorism, UK & USA, President Trump, Resolving Conflict, Defense, Crimea, The Media, Nuclear Weapons Policy: 15th Plenary Session (18 October 2018)

Part One, Chapter XII
Decline and Fall (1928)

Said about Russian reactions in case Finland and Sweden join NATO, quoted in &quot;Russia warns Sweden, Finland about consequences of joining NATO&quot; https://www.firstpost.com/world/russia-warns-sweden-finland-about-consequences-of-joining-nato-10577321.html, Firstpost, 20 April 2022