Night City was like a deranged experiment in Social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on th...e fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you'd break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone ... though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that ...is already alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension th...at is already alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Measured by any standard known to science--by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,--the tension and vibration and volu...me and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The automobile and the telephone are defeated as instruments of individualism by being applied to the needs of a mass society. The... automobile fulfills man's desire to move over the surface of the earth all by himself; but by becoming accessible to everybody, automobiles have paralyzed our streets. Individualism is possible only in plenty of empty space. Similarly, telephones block their own paths of individual communication when everybody is talking: the phone is too often "busy." Private enterprise cannot but strangle itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to t...hat fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not... Superficial but a visible core, then there is No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »