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| 43e62d8 | There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells. | african-american-men african-americans black-history-month black-leadership black-liberation-movement black-middle-class black-prophets black-revolutionaries careerists conscientious-objection freedom-fighters industrial-prison-complex leadership malcolm-x martyrs mass-incarceration political-advocacy political-philosophy political-prisoners prison-reform racial-discrimination racism warriors | Cornel West | |
| bfcf463 | None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. | Cornel West | ||
| dd7f7bc | A Christian accepts responsibility whatever his environment. God has not grudged you intelligence--you are capable of answering the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my actions?' Therefore, there is no doubt that you are responsible. 'Temptation cannot but enter the world, but woe unto him through whom temptation cometh.' As to your transgression itself, well, many commit similar ones, but go on living in peace with their conscien.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b07c89c | I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d32af8a | Dr. Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West was born in New York City on October 6, 1924. He died of cancer on January 2, 1999. Dr. West served in the U.S. Army during World War II and received his M.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1948, prior to Air Force LSD and MKULTRA contracts carried out there. He did his psychiatry residency from 1949 to 1952 at Cornell (an MKULTRA Institution and site of the MKULTRA cutout The Human Ecology Foundation). Fr.. | child-abuse cia denial dissociative-identity-disorder ethics false-memory-syndrome-foundation fmsf government-abuse lies military-abuse misinformation mkultra multiple-personality-disorder ritual-abuse | Colin A. Ross | |
| 5083105 | The blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human po.. | blues oppression world-history | Cornel West | |
| 27561b3 | It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in. Porfiry is not such a fool as you think.... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a35e8f9 | I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.' He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.' I said, 'Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they? | Russell Hoban | ||
| 67f8a31 | When you're violent you undermine everything. | Chris Hedges | ||
| ed61f70 | the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10 | Chris Hedges | ||
| 1eef121 | Speculators, meanwhile, have seized control of the global economy and the levers of political power. They have weakened and emasculated governments to serve their lust for profit. They have turned the press into courtiers, corrupted the courts, and hollowed out public institutions, including universities. They peddle spurious ideologies--neoliberal economics and globalization--to justify their rapacious looting and greed. They create grotes.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| fb82574 | The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. The more we listen to ourselves, the more we create God in our own image until God becomes a tawdry idol that looks and speaks like us. The power of the commandments is found not in the writings of theologians, although I read and admire some, but in the pathos of human life, including lives that .. | humanity idolatry law pathos religion theology | Chris Hedges | |
| b89313e | Premda zvuci kao ironija, ali cinjenica je da su sveucilista stotine tisuca ljudi obucila za poslove koji ce uskoro jednostavno nestati.Obucila su ljude da odrzavaju ustroj koji se ne moze odrzati. Elita, jednako kao i oni koji su stekli uske, specijalizirane, gotovo zanatske vjestine, znaju jedino kako hraniti zvijer sve dok ne umre. A, kad jednom umre, ostat ce bespomocni. Ne ocekujte da ce nas spasiti. Ne znaju kako. Ne znaju cak ni kako.. | sveučilišta | Chris Hedges | |
| c3e2cfb | Few of us can hold on to our real selves long enough to discover the momentous truths about ourselves and this whirling earth to which we cling. This is especially true of men [and women] in war. The great god Mars tries to blind us when we enter his realm, and when we leave he gives us a generous cup of the waters of Lethe to drink." -- J. Glenn Gray, "The Warriors: Reflections of Men in Battle" | Chris Hedges | ||
| a7da909 | When times are not so prosperous, we think at least our successful career will save us and our families from failure and despair. We are attracted, against our skepticism, to the idea that poverty will be alleviated by the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table. . . . Some of us often feel, and most of us sometimes feel, that we are only someone if we have made it: can look down on those who have not. The American dream is often a very .. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 7a44d20 | The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility. There are times when we must take this poison - just as a person with cancer accepts chemotherapy to live. We can not succumb to despair. Force is and I suspect always will be part of the human condition. There are times when the force wielded by one immoral faction must be countered by a faction that, while never moral, is perhaps less immoral. We in the industrial.. | genocide morality morals violence war | Chris Hedges | |
| ec63d93 | Five months after Zoran's disappearance, his wife gave birth to a girl. The mother was unable to nurse the child. The city was being shelled continuously. There were severe food shortages. Infants, like the infirm and the elderly, were dying in droves. The family gave the baby tea for five days, but she began to fade. "She was dying," Rosa Sorak said. "It was breaking our hearts." Fejzic, meanwhile, was keeping his cow in a field on the eas.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| dae8f8d | A furious and sustained backlash by a betrayed and angry populace, one unprepared intellectually and psychologically for collapse, will sweep aside the Democrats and most of the Republicans. A cabal of proto-fascist misfits, from Christian demagogues to simpletons like Sarah Palin to loudmouth talk-show hosts, whom we naively dismiss as buffoons, will find a following with promises of revenge and moral renewal. The elites, the ones with the.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| acab509 | Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion. | Chris Hedges | ||
| b76b942 | In a traditional democracy, the liberal class functions as a safety valve. It makes piecemeal and incremental reform possible. It offers hope for change and proposes gradual steps toward greater equality. It endows the state and the mechanisms of power with virtue. | Chris Hedges | ||
| fa302c7 | It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on a steel ring... . And there's one key there, three times as big as all the others, with deep notches; that can't be the key of the chest of drawers ... then there must be some other chest or strong-box ... that's worth knowing. Strong-boxes always have keys like that ... but how degrading it all is." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fad897a | I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 22e6d3a | for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bd26773 | Quando se ama, nao dura muito o ressentimento. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8dcaa68 | Le plus monstrueux des monstres est le monstre a nobles sentiments. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f175163 | Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2bcf6b3 | I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| da7634a | Dragostea abstracta pentru umanitate ascunde aproape intotdeauna o iubire egoista fata de tine insuti. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f4f6259 | There is only one means of salvation, then take yourself and make yourself responsible for all men's sins, that is the truth, you know, friends, for as soon as you sincerely make yourself responsible for everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so, and that you are to blame for every one and for all things. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aec95c2 | By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. | holly-wells ian-huntley jessica-chapman maxine-carr soham soham-murders stephen-richards stephen-richards-author the-soham-murders true-story | Hailey Giblin | |
| 65ba3dd | alighted near Hazel and Fiver. "How's Holly?" asked Hazel. "'E sad," said Kehaar. "'E say you no come back." Then he added, "Mees Clover, she ready for mudder." "That's good," said Hazel. "Is anyone doing anything about it?" "Ya, ya, ees all to fight." "Oh, well, I suppose it'll sort itself out." | Richard Adams | ||
| 83c41ed | Frith meant us to get back," replied Holly. "That's the real reason why we're here." | Richard Adams | ||
| fd29211 | You have to burn beliefs when they become convenient lies solely for the purpose of gaining and holding power. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1dd2a08 | You're a philosopher." "No. Just drunk." -- | Richard Kadrey | ||
| f9d89fa | Don't be stupid. Of course I'll help you. We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d838914 | How do you explain to someone that you understand their fear, then convince them that it's going to be all right? In my experience, the more you talk about what scares them, the worse it gets. There's not much to do but ride out the fear with them and try to keep them away from liquor and razor blades. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d3109d9 | I hate this place. You can't get a cup of coffee unless it has a backstory and a pedigree so the cafe can charge you as much for the cup as a normal human pays for dinner. Women drive by in cute little sports cars with more power under the hood than a Saturn V, but the speedometer will never top twenty because then they might not be seen and admired. Men window-shop in silk jackets made by indentured servants in countries they've never hear.. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 22a0e46 | Make her stop. I'm hungover and she has a robot. It's not fair." "Life is fair only in the grave and in the bedroom. This, you will notice, is neither." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e232c8f | My back feels like someone beat me with a pillowcase full of tuna-fish cans. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| b5f6f44 | She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 05ecf4a | It's like God left his lunch in the microwave and you get to finish it. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 0dd6548 | But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 538b748 | Are you asking because you want to see if doc can turn you into a librarian when all this is over?" [p.240:]" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d2546e1 | Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. Someday the right one will catch you in between the eyes and you'll never see it coming. | Richard Kadrey |