Alternatives Quote by Peter Watts

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

— Pierre Trudeau

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of…

— Rahm Emanuel

“Memes can replicate with impressive virulence while leaving swaths of collateral damage—patent medicines and psychic surgery, astrology and satanism, racist myths, superstitions, and (a…

— James Gleick

“The weaponized meme, when properly introduced and reinforced, will parasitically weave its way throughout the labyrinth of the mind and attach itself to the…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that…

— Kalle Lasn

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in…

— Richard Dawkins

“When the risk level becomes too high in the presence of armed police officers, you need to start shouting as loud as you can…

— Steven Magee

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being…

— Vance Packard

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid…

— Ashton Kutcher

We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never…

— Immortal Technique

A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this…

— Matthew Yglesias