“If all that is solid melts into air, then this new system is thin air freezing into something solid.”— Jak Ritger, donotresearch.net
“What had been an exhilarating initial surge has now become an exhausting slog.”— Kim Kelly, newrepublic.com
“Once assimilation becomes a possibility. You kind of abandon your principles because it’s much easier to just enter the system than destroy it.”— Jessa Crispin, topicalcream.info
“Why don't revolutions work? Because after one revolution you're back where you started.”— tequila-mockingbird, reddit.com
“It is a revolution until victory, until victory, until victory.”— Yasser Arafat, israelforeignaffairs.com
“But this is not the situation. What lies before us is not the ‘summer’s front’ but, initially at least, a polar night of icy darkness and harshness, whichever group may outwardly turn out the victor. And when this night slowly begins to recede, how many will still be alive of all those for whom the…”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“Without knowing it they had tested the system; they intended no more than to challenge the ossified university system, and down came the system of governmental power together with that of the huge party bureaucracies—‘une sorte de desintégration de toutes les hiérarchies.’ It was a textbook case of…”— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com
“It was Andreas’s gift, maybe his greatest, to find singular niches in totalitarian regimes. The Stasi was the best friend he’d ever had— until he met the Internet... The New Regime even recycled the old Republic’s buzzwords, collective, collaborative.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com