1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
3630
3631
3632
3633
3634
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 22bd36a | I kept remembering something Michael Fertik had said to me at the Village Pub in Woodside. 'The biggest lie,' he said, 'is "The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet." | individuals internet | Jon Ronson | |
| d0d7c93 | They can't shit on us," said Alex. "That's really what I'm saying. You can't shit on us anymore." There was a silence. "I just want them to stop shitting on us," said Alex. "OK," I said. "Sorry." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 47cab83 | The powerful, crazy, cruel people were now us. It felt like we were soldiers making war on other people's flaws, and there had suddenly been an escalation in hostilities. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 8a53d43 | Remember that the crazy people are not always to be found on the outside. Sometimes the crazy people are deeply embedded on the inside. Not even the most imaginative conspiracy theorist has ever thought to invent a scenario in which a crack team of Special Forces soldiers and major generals secretly try to walk through their walls and stare goats to death. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 44f1192 | Let's face it," my Deep Throat had said to me, "nobody rules the world anymore. The markets rule the world. Maybe that's why your conspiracy theorists make up all those crazy things. Because the truth is so much more frightening. Nobody rules the world. Nobody controls anything." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 41754e5 | Corporations took our innate impulse toward dissent and our desire for meaningful change, and transmuted them into effective sales tools for their products. | Daniel Pinchbeck | ||
| 5fa3182 | E, tova beshe d'lbokata mi mis'l za denia, a oshche niamashe deset sutrinta. Opravikh vratovr'zkata si i se zamislikh za fizionomiia. Ia da vidim... Imashe goliama veroiatnost da s'm zat'nal do ushite v laina, zatova reshikh da izglezhdam vesel i dovolen, che s'm tam. V'zpriekh s'otvetnoto izrazhenie i tr'gnakh k'm biuroto si. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 0207709 | I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered. | life philosophy | Nelson DeMille | |
| c95f4d5 | As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| c1de95e | An Englishman once said that he found it easier to be a member of a club than of the human race because the bylaws were shorter, and he knew all the members personally. That sounds about right. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 0645cf2 | You're going to live. That's not to say you're going to be happy for a while, but it beats the alternative. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 12c5aa7 | Life goes on. We just have to find the strength to face it sometimes, and the only way we can do that is to reach deep for faith and believe with all our hearts. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 975c3ea | Sean's our boy, big into computer games and football, wants to help the Redskins build a dynasty, though he doesn't really know what that means. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| bd6d21b | Without them, anarchy would reign and humanity would drop backward into the primitive night out of which it had so painfully emerged. | Jack London | ||
| 009602d | Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times. A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom ene.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b480f16 | She ate up London and spat it out, and now she's recharging her batteries in Bursford before going back into the fray,' Jack said. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 2a24cf4 | We took up a collection and sent a telegram to the authorities of that town. The text of the message was that eighty-five healthy, hungry hoboes would arrive about noon and that it would be a good idea to have dinner ready for them. | humor | Jack London | |
| 39fff8b | Now it happens that I am a fluid sort of an organism, with sufficient kinship with life to fit myself in 'most anywhere. | Jack London | ||
| 3af912d | And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived. | Jack London | ||
| 5eb651e | Also, as I looked at the mite of a youth with the heart of a lion, I thought, this is the type that on occasion rears barricades and shows the world that men have not forgotten how to die. | Jack London | ||
| 2bf2c1f | It was what should have been a bright summer day, but the smoke from the burning world filled the sky, through which the sun shone murkily, a dull and lifeless orb, blood-red and ominous. | Jack London | ||
| a2823ec | It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you. | Jack London | ||
| ff4e367 | Mary bit her lip. "She is merely saying hello." , Tottie agreed. . Her hand glided over his chest and headed down. cocky " | humour teasing | Kristen Callihan | |
| 083faff | Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions. | insanity mental-illness thought-control | Jack London | |
| 068ab07 | There is a greater strength than wealth, and it is greater because it cannot be taken away. Our strength, the strength of the proletariat, is in our muscles, in our hands to cast ballots, in our fingers to pull triggers. This strength we cannot be stripped of. It is the primitive strength, it is the strength that is to life germane, it is the strength that is stronger than wealth, and that wealth cannot take away. "But your strength is deta.. | Jack London | ||
| 380e60c | He drew an oval shape to the left of the board, a doorway to the centre and a noose to the right. 'Here-' - he indicated the oval- 'We have the population of London, gathered together in a single mass. Our door here will admit just one of these millions, so acting as a filter. This individual is the one suited for the noose, the man we shall see hang.' 'But, Holmes-how do we make the correct selection?, the odds must be several million to o.. | sherlock sherlock-holmes whitechapel | Mark Sohn | |
| 7cd7992 | In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature. There | Jack London | ||
| 11e21f9 | spoke of the professional men and the artists as villeins. What else are they? One and all, the professors, the preachers, and the editors, hold their jobs by serving the Plutocracy, and their service consists of propagating only such ideas as are either harmless to or commendatory of the Plutocracy. Whenever they propagate ideas that menace the Plutocracy, they lose their jobs, in which case, if they have not provided for the rainy day, th.. | Jack London | ||
| a25066a | Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they. | Jack London | ||
| 40887a9 | I know nothing that I may say can influence you," he said. "You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There is no Republican Party. There is no Democratic Party. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-spittlers and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy. You talk verbosely in antiquated terminology of your love of liberty, a.. | Jack London | ||
| dd5281f | He led a lost cause, and he was not afraid of God's thunderbolts........hurled into hell, he was unbeaten. A third of God's angels he had led with him, and straightaway he incited man to rebel against God, and gained for himself and hell a major portion of all the generations of man. Why was he beaten out of heaven? Because he was less brave than God? less proud? less aspiring? No! A thousand times no! God was more powerful, as he said, Who.. | Jack London | ||
| 0183082 | Still more. When I was three, and four, and five years of age, I was not yet I. I was a mere becoming, a flux of spirit not yet cooled solid in the mold of my particular flesh and time and place. In that period all that I had ever been in ten thousand lives before strove in me, and troubled the flux of me, in the effort to incorporate itself in me and become me. | Jack London | ||
| 4b349f4 | We, helpless infants in arms or creeping quadruped-like on the floor, dreamed our dreams of air flight. Yes; and we endured the torment and torture of nightmare fears of dim and monstrous things. We newborn infants, without experience, were born with fear, with memory of fear; and memory is experience. | Jack London | ||
| 17f9292 | The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. | jack-london mgg to-build-a-fire | Jack London | |
| 68fcdee | With the last remnant of his strength | Jack London | ||
| 6884549 | I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital. I have seen horrible deaths and mutilations. I have seen imbeciles hanged, because, being imbeciles, they did not possess the hire of lawyers. I have seen the hearts and s.. | Jack London | ||
| 238c8da | And all the while the four men lay beside me and watched and made no move. Nor did I move, and without shame I say it; though my reason was compelled to struggle hard against my natural impulse to rise up and interfere. I knew life. Of what use to the woman, or to me, would be my being beaten to death by five men there on the bank of the Susquehanna? I once saw a man hanged, and though my whole soul cried protest, my mouth cried not. Had it.. | Jack London | ||
| 87ca804 | Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they. It was the same insularity of mind that made the ancient Jew thank God he was not born a woman, and sent the modern missionary god-substituting to the ends of the earth; and it made Ruth desire to shape this man from .. | Jack London | ||
| 674045e | Such an army of revolution," he said, "twenty-five millions strong, is a thing to make rulers and ruling classes pause and consider. The cry of this army is: 'No quarter! We want all that you possess. We will be content with nothing less than all that you possess. We want in our hands the reins of power and the destiny of mankind. Here are our hands. They are strong hands. We are going to take your governments, your palaces, and all your pu.. | Jack London | ||
| 741dabc | Their highest concept of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. That was their first word and their last. It constituted their whole lexicon of ideas. Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought, while his sister talked. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped. | Jack London | ||
| a6fa784 | Mexican | Jack London | ||
| c1a6711 | A business man who was also a biologist and a sociologist would know, approximately, the right thing to do for humanity. But, outside the realm of business, these men are stupid. They know only business. They do not know mankind nor society, and yet they set themselves up as arbiters of the fates of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in. History, some day, will have an excruciating laugh at their expense." I was not surpr.. | Jack London | ||
| 332a13b | below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel. | Lee Child | ||
| 60391ca | Primitive communism, chattel slavery, serf slavery, and wage slavery were necessary stepping-stones in the evolution of society. | Jack London |