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Ted Kaczynski Quotes

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“The ultimate goal of a revolutionary movement today must be the total collapse of the worldwide technological system.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Anti Tech Revolution Why And How: Ted Kaczynski : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Tagged: Revolution, Technology
“Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists, anarcho-primitivists, and so forth (The 'GA Movement') have fallen under such heavy influence from the left that their rebellion against civilization has to great extent been neutralized. Instead of rebelling against the values of civilization, they have adopted many civilized values themselves and have constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies that embodies these civilized values.”
— Ted Kaczynski, The Road to Revolution
Tagged: Technology, Rebellion, civilization
“A mistake that most people make is to assume that the more followers you can recruit, the better. That's true if you are trying to win an election. A vote is a vote regardless of whether the voter is deeply committed or just barely interested enough to get to the polls. But when you're building a revolutionary movement, the number of people you have is far less important than the quality of your people and the depth of their commitment. Too many lukewarm or otherwise unsuitable people will ruin the movement.”
— Ted Kaczynski, The Road to Revolution
Tagged: revolutionary movements, elections
“There are two kinds of morality—the kind of morality that one imposes on oneself and the kind of morality that one imposes on others. For the first kind of morality, that is, for self-restraint, I have the greatest respect. The second kind of morality I do not respect except when it constitutes self-defense. (For example, when women say that rape and wife-beating are immoral, that is self-defense.) I have noticed that the people who try hardest to impose moral code on others (not in self-defense) are often the least careful to abide by that moral code themselves.”
— Ted Kaczynski, The Road to Revolution
Tagged: Morality, Rape, wife-beating
“The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called 'democratic' structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a 'democratic' system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Hit where it hurts
Tagged: techno-industrial system, Dictatorships, Democracy
“Smashing up McDonald's or Starbuck's is pointless. Not that I give a damn about McDonald's or Starbuck's. I don't care whether anyone smashes them up or not. But that is not a revolutionary activity. Even if every fast-food chain in the world were wiped out the techno-industrial system would suffer only minimal harm as a result, since it could easily survive without fast-food chains. When you attack McDonald's or Starbuck's, you are not hitting where it hurts.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Hit where it hurts
Tagged: Anarchism, McDonald's, Starbucks
“Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.”
— Ted Kaczynski
Tagged: Hope, Persistence, Stubbornness, winners, losers
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. It is well known that the rate of clinical depression had been greatly increasing in recent decades. We believe that this is due to disruption of the power process....But even if we are wrong, the increasing rate of depression is certainly the result of SOME conditions that exist in today's society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. (Yes, we know that depression is often of purely genetic origin. We are referring here to those cases in which environment plays the predominant role.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: SSRIs, Antidepressants, Big Pharma, Depression
“The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not. Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt, they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a non-moral origin. We use the term 'oversocialized' to describe such people.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: moral code, Society, socialized
“If our society had no social problems at all, the leftists would have to INVENT problems in order to provide themselves with an excuse for making a fuss.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: Leftists, Problems
“Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: Leftists, Compassion, Hostility, Power
“Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: Leftism, Masochism
“Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: Leftists, anti-western, Hate, Imperalism, Envy
“Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: Feminists, Insecurity
“Those who are most sensitive about 'politically incorrect' terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any 'oppressed' group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from middle- to upper-middle-class families.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future
Tagged: Political Correctness, activists
“The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible.”
— Ted Kaczynski, Interview with Ted Kaczynski
“But what first motivated me wasn’t anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...”
— Ted Kaczynski, Interview with Ted Kaczynski
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