Ted Kaczynski

The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to mere products and cogs in the social machine.

The technophiles will tell us that technology will solve all our problems. They will say that we will be able to control the climate, cure all diseases, and even achieve immortality. But they won't tell us that this will come at the cost of our freedom and dignity.

Our society tends to regard as a 'sickness' any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and tends to label as 'healthy' any mode of thought or behavior that IS convenient for the system.

The system does not require people to be *actively* loyal to it. All it requires of them is passive acceptance.

Primitive societies are characterized by a sense of community, a common purpose, and a direct connection to nature. Modern industrial society has none of these things.

When we speak of the 'morality' of an act, we are really speaking of its effects on the survival of the species.

The only way to get rid of the industrial-technological system is to destroy it. There is no other way.

The individual's life becomes meaningless unless he is able to overcome the feeling of powerlessness.

The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

The only way to solve the problem of oversocialization is to get rid of the industrial system.

The whole point of the industrial system is to make people dependent on it.

The more technology advances, the more we lose our freedom.

The only solution is to get rid of the industrial system and return to a simpler way of life.

The left is driven by feelings of inferiority and a need to prove itself.

The industrial-technological system is a cancer on the planet.

Humanity is a disease, and technology is its most virulent symptom.

The future of humanity is not in space, but in the wilderness.

The only way to be truly free is to live outside the system.

The modern world is a prison, and technology is its warden.

The wilderness is the only place where true freedom can be found.