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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | freedom spirituality love wisdom christian justice | 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 | ||
| 5857215 | To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth. | social | Rachel Klein | |
| d409bb0 | Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence." | Maile Meloy | ||
| cc302b9 | My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it. - from the Chapter "Finding.. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| 4614d66 | A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of a baby seemed to merge seamlessly for a moment with the gull's repetitive wail, as if they were one species. One species, Falkender thought, raucous and scavenging; one species calling out in pain. To be human is to be mixed and miscegenated like this. To be lost. | M. John Harrison | ||
| f6d83e2 | in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ... | M. John Harrison | ||
| d4eb58a | As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs tense. He was like an exhibit himself in the direct odd light filtering through the whitish panes, legs wound tensely round one another, his face like an apologetic bag. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 06e185f | If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity. | Paul Collins | ||
| 6c66ba5 | Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves the cause: it is because he loves the rabies | Paul Collins | ||
| e7fca4f | When it comes down to it, it's your happiness that's most important. | Maki Murakami | ||
| 7f78c41 | What's this "rough life of a novelist" bullshit? You sound like an idiot. You're a writer. At least give yourself better lines." | Maki Murakami | ||
| 6f45f69 | Come on, hurry up and aim your .44 Magnum at my pink flowerbed. Oh, come on, let's not talk pistols when you know it's a bazooka. | Maki Murakami | ||
| 049ce38 | No se donde nos han ensenado que socorrer al desvalido equivale a apartarlo de las garras de la muerte a cualquier precio. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| 6c1ded9 | Never trust a woman's tears, Alyosha. I am never for the woman in such cases. I am always on the side of the men. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a1f38ea | n lrd@ lTyb@ l tDyf bSl@ wHd@ l~ lHs, wh~ l tSlH l lldhhb l~ ljn@ | Victor Hugo | ||
| 17c8540 | I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince. | might-is-right winning-people-over | Victor Hugo | |
| 52a97a2 | Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 80791ac | You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 859f249 | Running beer gathers no foam. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d087ffd | n llh ldhy kn yfn yrfD 'n yw'mn bh yfrD nfsh lan l~ wjdn yfn,wn lHqyq@ llhy@ tshq Tryqh `l~ hwnin l~ qlbh ldhy m zl `Syan | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 153efb0 | 'khy ! ..'khy ! .Sdyqy ! ..mdhl hw lnsn Ht~ lywm ! , rhyb hw mSyr lnsn ! shdyd@ hy alm lnsn ! l tHsbn l'n ly rtb@ DbT 'nny mrw' fZ GlyZ lqlb l y`nyh l 'n yshrb lkwnyk w'n ytldhdh blns ! nny fy lwq` l 'fkr l fy mSyr lbshr ldhy yd`w l~ lshfq@ wl`Tf wlrth , dhlk hw htmmy lwHyd tqryb wm 'n bkdhb `lyk lbt@ , 'l fltshhd lsm 'ny l 'kdhb wl 'tbhy fy hdhh llHZ@ , n lmSyr lfj` ldhy ktb `l~ lbshr y`dhbny t`dhyb shdyd l'nny 'n nfsy wHd mn hw'l l'shqy l.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f32ed03 | Believe that God loves you so as you cannot conceive of it; even with your sin and in your sin he loves you. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a74a264 | An angel in heaven I've told already; but I want to tell an angel on earth. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 046f843 | His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice." | raskolnikov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 308fd63 | I believed, I believe, I want to believe, and I will believe | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d46969b | That makes it worse! Worse and better! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 61a0b0d | You are like everyone else," Alyosha concluded, "that is, like a great many others, only you ought not to be like everyone else, that's what." "Even if everyone is like that?" "Yes, even if everyone is like that. You be the only one who is not like that. And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8799877 | Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me. You, for instance, want to cure men of their old habits and reform their will in accordance with science and good sense. But how do you know, not only that it is possible, but also that it is desirable to reform man in that way? And what leads you to the conclusion that man's inclinations need reforming? In short, how do you know that such a reformation will be a benefit to man? | science reform | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b33d422 | You say I haven't any orginality. But mark this, dear Prince, there's nothing more annoying for a man of our time and race than to tell him he's not original, a weak character with no special talents, ordinary in other words. You didn't even deign to regard me as a genuine rogue, I felt like killing you for that just now, you know that? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9c6ed89 | dh wSlt ly nqT@ l tjsryn 'n ttkhTyh fswf tshqyn, w dh tkhTyth frbm shqyt 'kthr | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 00218e6 | For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 77f974c | n hdhh lmkhlwqt lty l tmlk qw@ ldf` `n nfsh mtshbh@ mtmthl@: t`rf 'n lhw@ tntZrh hnk, thm tjry lyh l tlwy `l~ shy. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b424fa3 | You have disgraced the name of Russia, madam!" shouted the general, "and there are police for that!" | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |