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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f75dca | Nothing very, very good and nothing very, very bad ever lasts for very very long. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 408ee93 | Statemi a sentire: il lunedi fa schifo perche sei arrabbiato per non aver potuto dormire fino a tardi, inoltre e anche il giorno in cui avviene il sessanta per cento delle riunioni che ti rovinano la vita. Il martedi fa schifo perche ci sono ancora quattro giorni lavorativi da superare; odi te stesso e il mondo perche sei intrappolato nella ruota per criceti chiamata vita, schiavo della paga. Il mercoledi e terribile perche ti rendi conto, .. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 17c0b22 | When you crop a photo, you tell a lie. | appearances-are-deceiving honesty-quotes photography photography-quotes | Douglas Coupland | |
| e891f16 | We have known for some time that the poor and ignored were the nonvoters, alienated from a political system they felt didn't care about them, and about which they could do little. Now alienation has spread upward into families above the poverty line. These are white workers, neither rich nor poor, but angry over economic insecurity, unhappy with their work, worried about their neighborhoods, hostile to government--combining elements of raci.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 1ce1538 | Why is it Americans are socially permitted to say 'fricking' when in fact everyone knows the word they're actually saying is 'fucking'? ...here you have some bland ho-bag telly presenter saying 'I'm so fricking mad' about whatever, while you, the home viewer, know she's three millimeters away from saying 'I'm so fucking mad'. But instead of being outraged because she basically said 'fucking' on TV, everyone giggles, like she's being cute. ... | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 30b953c | So I got to thinking that perhaps that's what money is: a crystallization--or, rather, a homogenization--of time and free will into those things we call dollars and pounds and yen and euros. Money multiplies your time. It also expands your agency and broadens the number of things you can do accordingly. Big-time lottery winners haven't won ten million dollars--they've won ten thousand person-years of time to do pretty much anything they wan.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 813a438 | Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.) | Douglas Coupland | ||
| cbd3fa6 | I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don't know any successful people | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a21c4d8 | I was convinced that all of the people I'd ever gone to school with were headed for great things in life and I wasn't. They were having more fun; finding more meaning in life. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fa800cf | The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 4644cd4 | Animals are our spiritual companions, living proof of a simply abundant source of Love. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 683df20 | Our friends are the jewels in our crown of contentment. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| a7735f8 | It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. --SOMERSET MAUGHAM | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| d5bfe99 | God wept; but that mattered little to an unbelieving age; what mattered most was that the world wept and still is weeping and blind with tears and blood. For there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism and a new enslavement of labor. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 70f5759 | Turning fifty is an entirely different matter altogether. "At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore," | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 3a57b57 | How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 7b46b81 | Every day we're given chances to embrace the new. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| d1f131e | I never cared much for machinery. I could not see into their complications or feel interested in them. . . In sweet June weather I would lean far out of the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of sound inside. | summer window | Howard Zinn | |
| 52de0a6 | And Bernice Johnson, who organized the Albany Freedom Singers and was expelled from Albany State College for her determined involvement in the movement. | Howard Zinn | ||
| f663a6c | An Ashinabe "spring poem" translated by Gerald Vizenor: as my eyes look across the prairie i feel the summer in the spring" | spring summer | Howard Zinn | |
| 30795cd | Behind the English invasion of North America, behind their massacre of Indians, their deception, their brutality, was that special powerful drive born in civilizations based on private property. It was a morally ambiguous drive; the need for space, for land, was a real human need. But in conditions of scarcity, in a barbarous epoch of history ruled by competition, this human need was transformed into the murder of whole peoples. Roger | Howard Zinn | ||
| 9d577a0 | The police force was dominantly Irish, and the official investigation of the riot indicated the police helped the rioters: "... it appears that charges of unprovoked and most brutal clubbing have been made against policemen, with the result that they were reprimanded or fined a day's pay and were yet retained upon the force." | Howard Zinn | ||
| 8b9a6b3 | But how can the judgment be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly? | Howard Zinn | ||
| 2945219 | That quick disposal might be acceptable ("Unfortunate, yes, but it had to be done") to the middle and upper classes of the conquering and "advanced" countries. But is it acceptable to the poor of Asia, Africa, Latin America, or to the prisoners in Soviet labor camps, or the blacks in urban ghettos, or the Indians on reservations--to the victims of that progress which benefits a privileged minority in the world? Was it acceptable (or just in.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| f69f904 | in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. | Howard Zinn | ||
| c369ff1 | It is roughly estimated that Africa lost 50 million human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization, at the hands of slave traders and plantation owners in Western Europe and America, the countries deemed the most advanced in the world. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 2e90133 | Aldous Huxley: "Liberties are not given, they are taken." | Howard Zinn | ||
| f4ee180 | there were 60,000 people living on this island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? I myself writing it as a knowledgeable eyewitness can hardly believe it. . . . | Howard Zinn | ||
| 346194a | after the Civil War both parties now were controlled by capitalists. They were divided along North-South lines, still hung over with the animosities of the Civil War. This made it very hard to create a party of reform cutting across both parties to unite working people South and North--to say nothing of black and white, foreign-born and native-born. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 770be7f | It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion, it might get out of hand, and turn its ferocity beyond slavery to the most successful system of capitalist enrichment in the world. If a war, those who made the war would organize its consequences. Hence, it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown. In 1859, John Brown was hanged, with federal complic.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 8f13528 | Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. Certainly this was the experience of African-Americans in this country for two hundred years. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 3eb0d95 | Also in 1865, a South Carolina planter wrote to the New York Tribune that the conduct of the Negro in the late crisis of our affairs has convinced me that we were all laboring under a delusion. . . . I believed that these people were content, happy, and attached to their masters. But events and reflection have caused me to change these positions. . . . If they were content, happy and attached to their masters, why did they desert him in the.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 04b3f42 | History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, , in which he proceeded to tell the history of nineteenth-century Europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of Austria and England, ignoring the millions who suffered from those statesmen's policies. From his standpoint, the 'peace' that Europe had before the French Revolution was 'restored' by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in Engla.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 16d2310 | The President of the United States isn't going to solve our problems. The problems are too big. | president problems | Howard Zinn | |
| f2417bb | By 1850, fifteen Boston families called the "Associates" controlled 20 percent of the cotton spindleage in the United States, 39 percent of insurance capital in Massachusetts, 40 percent of banking resources in Boston." | Howard Zinn | ||
| 32114df | Indeed, in 1976, fifteen years after he arrived and was arrested, Charles Sherrod was elected to the Albany city commission. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 50e9508 | The women tended the crops and took general charge of village affairs while the men were always hunting or fishing. And since they supplied the moccasins and food for warring expeditions, they had some control over military matters. As Gary B. Nash notes in his fascinating study of early America, Red, White, and Black: "Thus power was shared between the sexes and the European idea of male dominancy and female subordination in all things was.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| f298dea | What made Bacon's Rebellion especially fearsome for the rulers of Virginia was that black slaves and white servants joined forces. The final surrender was by "four hundred English and Negroes in Armes" at one garrison, and three hundred "freemen and African and English bondservants" in another garrison. The naval commander who subdued the four hundred wrote: "Most of them I persuaded to go to their Homes, which accordingly they did, except .. | Howard Zinn | ||
| c61b4c1 | A best-selling "pocket book," published in London, was widely read in the American colonies in the 1700s. It was called Advice to a Daughter: You must first lay it down for a Foundation in general, That there is Inequality in Sexes, and that for the better Oeconomy of the World; the Men, who were to be the Law-givers, had the larger share of Reason bestow'd upon them; by which means your Sex is the better prepar'd for the Compliance that is.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 5a1220a | Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around. | friendship | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 31d38eb | Art thou so deeply read in nature and her large philosophy, and I am yet to teach thee that deadliest hellebore or the vomit of a toad are qualified poison to the malice of a woman? | vengeance women | E.R. Eddison | |
| ec0dd70 | Tenderly he drew on his lambswool gloves, and shivered a little; for the breath of that desert blew snell and frore and there seemed a shadow in the air southward, for all it was bright and gentle weather below whence they were come. Yet albeit his frail body quailed, even so were his spirits within him raised with high and noble imaginings as he stood on the lip of that rocky cliff. The cloudless vault of heaven; the unnumbered laughter of.. | E.R. Eddison | ||
| c7e36e9 | Ultimate truths are to be attained, if at all, in some immediate way: by vision rather than by ratiocination. | E.R. Eddison | ||
| 07b0353 | Abase thee and serve me, worm of the pit. Else will I by and by summon out of ancient night intelligences and dominations mightier far than thou, and they shall serve my ends, and thee shall they chain with chains of quenchless fire and drag thee from torment to torment through the deep. | summon threat | E.R. Eddison |