February 2012
4 posts
“To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man...”
– K. Marx, 1843
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
– Slavoj Zizek.
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
– I. Kant
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in...”
– Walter Benjamin
January 2012
5 posts
“Pessimism of the Intellect; Optimism of the Will”
– A slogan, probably authored by Gramsci himself, which appeared regularly on the masthead of L’Ordine Nuovo, the newspaper he edited.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws!”
– M.L.King
“When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate...”
– Emma Goldman, A New Declaration of Independence (1909)
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
– Che Guevara, Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240
“Optimism and pessimism. It should be noted that very often optimism is nothing...”
– —Gramsci
December 2011
7 posts
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the...”
– Margaret Mead
“The dissident is not seeking power…has no desire for office and does not gather...”
– Václav Havel (1990) in Antonia Darder’s speech; The Making of a Postcolonial Dissident Scholar
“Students need to come to understand that the reason for learning is to nurture...”
– M. Greene
“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance...”
– bell hooks
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
– Mark Twain
“By its identification of cognition with science, positivism restricts...”
– Max Horheimer
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
– Edward Abbey
November 2011
4 posts
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops...”
– William S. Burroughs
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely...”
– Howard Zinn
“Poetry heals the wounds reason creates.”
– Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)
October 2011
1 post
“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has...”
– -Theodor Adorno
September 2011
1 post
“The search for specific historical agents of revolutionary change in the...”
– Herbert Marcuse, “Preface,” An Essay on Liberation, Boston: Beacon Press, 1969, p. 79.
August 2011
1 post
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
– Anatole France (1844-1924)
July 2011
6 posts
“Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.”
– Woody Allen
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom...”
– Frederick Douglass
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s...”
– George Orwell
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they...”
– George Orwell
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look...”
– - Richard Bach
“Give me an adequate army, with power to provide it with more pay and better food...”
– An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish by Bertrand Russell
June 2011
6 posts
“But I see what they are offering me are just bigger cages and longer chains.”
– The (International) Noise Conspiracy
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you...”
– Phyllis Bottome
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser
“Time has two faces, Khayyam said to himself. It has two dimensions; its length...”
– Amin Maalouf, 2004, p. 25. Samarkant, Translated by Russel Harris
“There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for...”
– Cornel West
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have...”
– Howard Zinn, 1991, p. 129
May 2011
5 posts
“An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.”
– Montesquieu
“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In the enigmatic readiness of the technologically educated masses to fall under...”
– Adorno & Horkheimer
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
– William Faulkner
April 2011
4 posts
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell
“Colonialism is not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with reasoning...”
– Frantz Fanon
“The astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally...”
– Wilhelm Reich
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
– Rosa Luxemburg
March 2011
9 posts
“I shall ask for the abolition of the punishment of death until I have the...”
– Marquis de Lafayette
“Do not be afraid of the populace, fear rather your own repression!”
– Osman Baydemir, Mayor of Diyarbakir
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
– Rollo May
“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead...”
– Rollo May
“My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it,...”
– Audre Lorde
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But
when...”
– Audre Lorde