“If I lose control, you'll be the first to know."
"I'm quite perturbed by the idea.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Barani, Zia-uddin, "Tarikh-e-Firoz Shahi", p.509
“If I lose control, you'll be the first to know."
"I'm quite perturbed by the idea.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Qui dit examen, dit révolte.Toute révolte est, ou le manteau sous lequel se cache un prince, ou les langes d'une domination nouvelle.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part I: The Calvinist Martyr, Ch. I: A House Which No Longer Exists at the Corner of a Street Which No Longer Exists in a Paris Which No Longer Exists.
Bowe Bergdahl (1986) American soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap
Last e-mail to parents (2009)
“All over the world we are witnessing an instinctive revolt against dehumanization.”
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
Introduction : The Libertarian Tradition
Communalism (1974)
Context: As concentration and depersonalization increase in the dominant society, as the concentration of capital increases with the takeover of ever larger businesses by conglomerates and international corporations, as more and more local initiative is abandoned to the rule of the central State, and as computerization and automation narrow the role of human initiative in both labor and administration, life becomes ever more unreal, aimless, and empty of meaning for all but a tiny elite who still cling to the illusion they possess initiative. Action and reaction — thesis and antithesis — this state of affairs produces its opposite. All over the world we are witnessing an instinctive revolt against dehumanization.
“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Words perturb our powers of reason. The only safe words are our own.”
Emilio Massera (1925–2010) Argentine military officer
Obituary, The Economist, 27 November 2010, p. 98
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), The Wellspring of Reality
Context: The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity. Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe.
Clive Staples Lewis book The Four Loves
The Four Loves (1960)
Context: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.