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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5781b71 | Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living. | bell hooks | ||
| 2e319d3 | Before contemporary feminist movement was less than 10 years old, feminist thinkers began to talk about the way in which patriarchy was harmful to men. Without changing our fierce critique of male domination feminist politics expanded to include the recognition that patriarchy stripped men of certain rights, imposing on them a sexist masculine identity. | Bell Hooks | ||
| ad2212b | When men lie to women, presenting a false self, the terrible price they pay to maintain "power over" us is the loss of their capacity to give and receive love." | bell hooks | ||
| a255318 | It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power. | dependency power | Bell Hooks | |
| bdd7390 | Most people have no understanding of the myriad ways feminism has positively changed all our lives. Sharing feminist thought and practice sustains feminist movement. Feminist knowledge is for everybody. | Bell Hooks | ||
| dd11096 | We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy. | bell hooks | ||
| 9baae5d | Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. | love | bell hooks | |
| 4b8f0a4 | This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience. | capitalist-market consumerism | Cornel West | |
| 2e7d22b | King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America--even though the white press attempted to do so. | Cornel West | ||
| 0c9bad6 | To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom. | christian freedom justice love spirituality wisdom | Cornel West | |
| 24eba6f | No one who lives under constant surveillance, who is subject to detention anywhere at any time, whose conversations, proclivities, and habits are recorded, stored, and analyzed, can be described as free. | Chris Hedges | ||
| c349678 | U.S. military spending, which consumes half of all discretionary spending, has had a profound social and political cost. Bridges and levees collapse. Schools decay. Domestic manufacturing declines. Trillions in debt threaten the viability of the currency and the economy. The poor, the mentally ill, the sick, and the unemployed are abandoned. Human suffering is the price for victory, which is never finally defined or attainable. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 5a51f43 | Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it, | Chris Hedges | ||
| 896db3c | Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 442f783 | The potency of myth is that it allows us to make sense of mayhem and violent death. It gives a justification to what is often nothing more than gross human cruelty and stupidity. It allows us to believe we have achieved our place in human society because of a long chain of heroic endeavors, rather than accept the sad reality that we stumble along a dimly lit corridor of disasters. It disguises our powerlessness. | Chris Hedges | ||
| f34bfb1 | Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die. They ruthlessly exploit the natural world and the members of their society in the name of progress until exhaustion or collapse, blind to the fury of their own self-destruction. | Chris Hedges | ||
| c2f0107 | The citizen has become irrelevant. He or she can participate in heavily choreographed elections, but the demands of corporations and banks are paramount. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 922e5fe | Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 5d209bd | To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach out to those we love, to see in them all the divinity, pity, and pathos of the human. And to recognize love in the lives of others - even those with whom we are in conflict - love that is like our own. It does not mean we will avoid war or death. It does not mean that we as distinct individuals will survive. But love, in.. | war | Chris Hedges | |
| 882c3a5 | Those of us who are condemned as radicals, idealists, and dreamers call for basic reforms that, if enacted, would make peaceful reform possible. But corporate capitalists, now unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they are igniting. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 0863482 | Black is a good color anytime you're flinging around blood. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 684aeff | Thank God for whiskey or the world would be so full of secrets the weight would spin us into the sun. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a84b4d1 | If Mason wasn't crazy before, he's definitely joined the banana army now. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 3476994 | Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1cdd6a5 | Everything's show biz in the end | Richard Kadrey | ||
| eec796f | I mean, there's doomed. There's screwed. And there's monsoons-in-Hell fucked. And we're at fucked o'clock. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 641c39e | The thing you have to understand about Lucifer is that he hardly ever talks, and when he does, it's never much more than a whisper. When half the universe is hanging on to your every word, you don't have to shout. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 8e22e6f | I've got plenty on my plate. Till then, Ishii can piss his sorrows in a teapot and brew himself a hot cup of fuck off. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 80a3ced | Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it out loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 922b960 | I should sit down and make a list of everything I missed while I was gone. If you can't smoke in bars anymore, what other atrocities has the world committed? | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1e762b4 | So, you're the angel of Death?" The angel shook his head, a little embarrassed. "I don't have that honor. In Heaven, I'm the celestial who bears the great golden quills, the silver Chroma, the holy vellums upon which the Lord God inscribes the fate of the universe." Tiras's eyes narrowed. "You're in charge of office supplies. You're the angel of office supplies." The" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| ab6f92b | IT'S WEIRD starting over from zero. It changes the scale of your ambitions. Instead of fantasizing about what kind of mansion you'll buy when you win the lottery, you ask yourself, | Richard Kadrey | ||
| dbb3eb3 | while being alone sucks, losing someone you care about is far worse. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| b9ec8c0 | Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 1173433 | The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom. The high of not knowing what comes next, so much better than always knowing one day will be like the last. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 5e96b37 | I wiggle an eyebrow. "I get to see you in a tuxedo?" "Better. You can help me take it off." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 68f811a | Possession. Demand. Control. He wants it all. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 790ad89 | This is written in the night. In war the dark is on nobody's side, in love the dark confirms that we are together. | courage hope tyranny | John Berger | |
| 4afec8c | Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself. | understanding-via-drawing | John Berger | |
| 880669c | To become bored with eating is to be bored with life. | John Berger | ||
| 98b77b7 | lmDy hw lzmn lwHyd ldhy lsn sjn lh. ymknn tGyyr lmDy tmman km nrGb. m l ymknn lqym bh hw tGyyr nty'jh. | John Berger | ||
| 934574c | Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal | mediation pre-verbal translation | John Berger | |
| 227c6e2 | The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved. | John Berger | ||
| d5e3315 | Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them. | communication photography | John Berger |