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John Zerzan Quotes: If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.
         

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.


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Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.



The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.



We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.



We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.



The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.



I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.



There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.



Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.



"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.



We don't need more stupid ideas.

We don't need more stupid ideas.





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It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross—it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death.



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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.



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What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.



She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.



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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.



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Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.



I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.



I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.



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There [in Allied] were things that were written that were cut, and things that were shot that were cut, but if the film works, they are erased from memory.



If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.




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