Carolina QuotesAnd then there are unthinking, animal types who seem to be satisfied with a purely physical sense of power (the good combat soldier, who gets his sense of power by developing fighting skills that he is quite content to use in blind obedience to his superiors).
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Autonomy", paragraph 43
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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