„… the stupefying effect spectator sports have in making people passive, atomized, obedient nonparticipants—nonquestioning, easily controlled and easily disciplined“

— Noam Chomsky

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„Spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them—you're watching somebody doing them.“
— Noam Chomsky
„People can so easily be tempted by slackness… and by money.“
— Anne Frank
„I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.“
— Jane Austen
„I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.“
— Sylvia Plath
„All sports are time control demonstrations…“
— Buckminster Fuller
„The world isn’t that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It’s people who are turned upside down.“
— Haruki Murakami