“Don’t push the on-button if you don’t know where the off-button is.”
David Gerrold (1944) American screenwriter and novelist
Source: Short fiction, The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello, p. 224
“Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.”
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Making The World Safe For Hypocrisy, p. 64
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
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