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“They ignore basic truths, we don't even have a basement.”
2016 interview http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985

Free Culture (2004)
Context: A simple idea blinds us, and under the cover of darkness, much happens that most of us would reject if any of us looked. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically. Blindness becomes our common sense. And the challenge for anyone who would reclaim the right to cultivate our culture is to find a way to make this common sense open its eyes.
So far, common sense sleeps. There is no revolt. Common sense does not yet see what there could be to revolt about.

As quoted in The 100 Greatest Heroes (2003) p. 60 by Harry Paul Jeffers
2000s

"God Part II
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
Context: Don't believe in Goldman, His type like a curse. Instant Karma's going to get him if I don't get him first

“We're such self-centered crap we don't even notice Hell itself rising up against us.”
As heard in "Jones Iver - Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWd6XgBVIcg by Nick Lutsko, released on the Super Deluxe YouTube channel (14 July 2017)

Session 388, Page 158
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8

The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)

“I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.”
Source: Every Fifteen Minutes