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Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

— Chris Hedges

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The relationship between those who are constantly watched and tracked and those who watch and track them is the relationship between masters and slaves.

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To be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state.

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

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The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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