Carolina QuotesA new kind of society cannot be designed on paper. That is, you cannot plan out a new form of society in advance, then set it up and expect it to function as it was designed to do.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Some Principles of History", paragraph 104
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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