“We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination” (David Lynch)
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
-- Samuel Johnson
“The continuation of the Israeli occupation is the root of all sins.”
“It is in our interest to get rid of large areas where a large number of Palestinians live, not because it is good for them but because it is good for us.”
Amiram Levin, former commander of the northern region in the Israeli army
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
-- Richard Feynman
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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck
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"We can either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves stronger. The amount of work is the same."
"In life, you can play by someone else’s rules or you can play by your own. You play by someone else’s rules, you’re gonna get fucked every time cause it’s their design, not yours."
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
-- Umberto Eco
By producing human beings the universe has woken up and turned to contemplate itself.
-- Richard Rathe
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We readily inquire, “Does he know Greek or Latin?” “Can he write poetry and prose?” But what matters most is what we put last: “Has he become better and wiser?” We ought to find out not who understands most but who understands best. We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding and the sense of right and wrong empty.
[Nous enquerons volontiers, Sçait-il du Grec ou du Latin ? escrit-il en vers ou en prose ? mais, s’il est devenu meilleur ou plus advisé, c’estoit le principal, & c’est ce qui demeure derriere. Il falloit s’enquerir qui est mieux sçavant, non qui est plus sçavant. Nous ne travaillons qu’à remplir la memoire, & laissons l’entendement & la conscience vuide.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (yyyy), “Of Pedantry[Du pedantisme] (1572-1578), Essays, Book 1, ch. 24 (1.24) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987), ch. 25]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed
Bantu Stephen Biko
Steve Biko
https://t.me/antikrieg/235
Poverty exists, not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
-- Anonymous
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"Even as queer and trans Iranian asylum seekers and Afghan refugees who left Iran for Turkey do not fall under the same category according to the UNHCR’s criteria, they have something in common: they are economic refugees. Yet the UNHCR does not recognize economic marginalization as grounds for granting asylum. If it did, a large number of people in the world (including in the United States) who are affected by global capitalism’s economic violence (such as lack of access to universal health care in the United States) would be eligible for asylum."
― Sima Shakhsari in her article "What counts at violence?" in https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-of-gender-violence
h/t @danahilliot
“When they challenge the innocent morality of the rights regime, anthropologists join a number of political and legal theorists who have asked whether humanitarianism is the new face of colonialism. Some have pointed out the paradoxes of rights-based arguments: that they allow people to make claims, but lock them into fixed identities defined by their injuries rather than freeing them from these identities into a world of equals; or they absolve the perpetrators of past violence by making them the defenders of rights.”
― Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Hard to believe it's already been ten years. GNU Terry Pratchett.
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Illustration by Paul Kidby)
We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface.
-- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)
'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.'
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quoted in The Brutalist (2024)
Why does it seem like every organization that uses the word "truth" in their name is almost sure to be its enemy?
-- J. T. Eberhard (patheos.com)
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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