A man searching for lost paradise can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. -Jim Morrison (paris journal)
"Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions...and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander."
-Saul Williams
"I fear your freedom thus, I must fear my own. You are a changing woman. I recognise you and I am trying to free you...of me. It is your freedom that I love. I have not yet learned to love without holding on."
-Saul Williams
"As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life."
-The Dhammapada (The flowers of Life 4:49)
"Culture contains the seed of resistance that blossoms into the flower of liberation." -anon
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand."
-Fredrick Douglass
"The inability to accept the mystical experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."
-Alan Watts
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” - J. Krishnamurti
The illusion of freedom in America will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, then they will pull back the curtains and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa
“You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” – Mario Savio
“They must find it difficult, those that have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority” – Gerald Massey
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
-Peter Kropotkin
“If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man his thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death; and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this other question: What is property! may I not likewise answer, It is robbery, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?”
-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The world is my country, all mankind my brethren,
and to do good is my religion.”
Thomas Paine
..Western democracy,
as it functions today, is diluted fascism…true
democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at
the center. It has to be worked from below,
by the people of every village.”
Gandhi
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great
by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king
had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile
possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride.
“What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but
because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a
robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great
fleetartstyled emperor.”
St. Augustine
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice;
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BarryGoldwater
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that
mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of
real, though not avowed, autocrats, We choose between
Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Hellen Keller
The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t
take it away. Freedom is something you’re born with,
and then one day someone tries to deny it. The extent
to which you resist is the extent to which you are
free.
Utah Phillips
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the
security of property, is in reality instituted for the
defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who
have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The
obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
“Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control. It means out
of ‘their’ control.”
Jim Dodge
“Por todos nuestros muertos, ni un minutode
silencio. Toda una vida de lucha.” [To honor our dead,
not a minute of silence. A whole life of struggle.]
“I will say this, at the risk of sounding ridiculous,
but a true revolutionary is motivated only by love.”
Ernesto “Che” Guevarra
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is
civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people
all overtheworld have obeyed the dictates of the
leaders of their government and have gone to war,
and millions have been killed because of this
obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient
all over the world in the face of poverty and
starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our
problem is that people are obedient while the jails
are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand
thieves are running and robbing the country.That’s our
problem.”
Howard Zinn
“Is it possible for a class which exterminates the
native peoples of the Americas, replaces them by
raping
Africa for humans it then denigrates and dehumanizes
as
slaves, while cheapening and degrading its own working
class — is it possible for such a class to create
democracy, equality, and to advance the cause for
human freedom?”
Brian Price
anarchy
doesnt mean no rules, it means no rulers Mikhail Bakunin
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of
any significance in the major media.” (William
Colby, former director of the CIA)
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has
an obligation to break the law. — Henry David Thoreau
The inability to accept the mystical experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”
-Alan Watts
When we take action to avenge the ones we love, personal justice collides with social and “devine” justice…We become judge, jury, and “God”. With that choice comes daunting responsibility. Some men cave under that weight, others abuse the momentum. The true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The solution is always an equal mix of might and right. –Sam Crow
The economic and governmental systems that have emerged organically thru human existence have historically been built on our faults, and they are unable to change to discourage these faults. What the human race needs is a conscious effort to build a system without poverty and hierarchy. –Juraj Gagne Ozymandias
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life-form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life but now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another…the renunciation of Life itself…a falling towards inorganic inflexible machine…towards dead matter. –William S. Burroughs
The liberty of man consists soley in this…that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such…and not because they have been externally imposed on him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. –Mikhail Bukunin
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, more violent…but it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction. –Einstien
Those that urge men to submit to the rule of these corporations may justly be suspected of misunderstanding human nature, and of wishing to make man into machines. –Humboldt
The distribution of power in American society has survived, essentially undisturbed, all movements for reform. These movements appear in retrospect as essentially futile attempts at accomplishing, thru rational and moderate reform, what can only be accomplished by a radical shift in power and priorities, either thru the disentrigration of the existing power structure or thru revolution. –Hans Morgenthau
American society has chosen to reject it’s rhetorical commitment to equality and freedom and to use all the means at it’s disposal to preserve the existing system of injustice, at home and abroad, as it’s ultimate purpose. –Hans Morgenthau
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
- anon
‘Join the army, travel to exotic lands, meet exciting people, and kill them” – anon
“Culture contains the seed of resistance that blossoms into the flower of liberation.” -anon
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” – John Lennon
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” – Samuel Adams
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility
of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, depart
from us in peace. We
ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and
lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and
may posterity
forget that you were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.” – Patrick Henry
We are apt to shut our eyes against painful truth. For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.” – Patrick Henry
That we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the people” – Thomas Jefferson
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier a second and a third time til at length it becomes habitual – Thoma Jefferson
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” – Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of
our monied corporations which dare already to
challenge our government to a trial of strength, and
bid defiance to the laws our country.”
Thomas Jefferson
A little revolution, now and then, is a healthy thing.
It is as natural as lightning.
Thomas Jefferson
People dont get offended by what they know is false, they get offended by what they think might be true.
-Tony Hinchcliff
Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot reason are fools, and those who dare not...are slaves. -George Gordon Byron
The illusion of freedom in America will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, then they will pull back the curtains and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa
“You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” – Mario Savio
“They must find it difficult, those that have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority” – Gerald Massey
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
-Peter Kropotkin
“If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man his thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death; and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this other question: What is property! may I not likewise answer, It is robbery, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?”
-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The world is my country, all mankind my brethren,
and to do good is my religion.”
Thomas Paine
..Western democracy,
as it functions today, is diluted fascism…true
democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at
the center. It has to be worked from below,
by the people of every village.”
Gandhi
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great
by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king
had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile
possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride.
“What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but
because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a
robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great
fleetartstyled emperor.”
St. Augustine
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice;
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BarryGoldwater
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that
mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of
real, though not avowed, autocrats, We choose between
Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Hellen Keller
The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t
take it away. Freedom is something you’re born with,
and then one day someone tries to deny it. The extent
to which you resist is the extent to which you are
free.
Utah Phillips
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the
security of property, is in reality instituted for the
defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who
have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The
obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
“Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control. It means out
of ‘their’ control.”
Jim Dodge
“Por todos nuestros muertos, ni un minutode
silencio. Toda una vida de lucha.” [To honor our dead,
not a minute of silence. A whole life of struggle.]
“I will say this, at the risk of sounding ridiculous,
but a true revolutionary is motivated only by love.”
Ernesto “Che” Guevarra
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is
civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people
all overtheworld have obeyed the dictates of the
leaders of their government and have gone to war,
and millions have been killed because of this
obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient
all over the world in the face of poverty and
starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our
problem is that people are obedient while the jails
are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand
thieves are running and robbing the country.That’s our
problem.”
Howard Zinn
“Is it possible for a class which exterminates the
native peoples of the Americas, replaces them by
raping
Africa for humans it then denigrates and dehumanizes
as
slaves, while cheapening and degrading its own working
class — is it possible for such a class to create
democracy, equality, and to advance the cause for
human freedom?”
Brian Price
anarchy
doesnt mean no rules, it means no rulers Mikhail Bakunin
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of
any significance in the major media.” (William
Colby, former director of the CIA)
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has
an obligation to break the law. — Henry David Thoreau
The inability to accept the mystical experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”
-Alan Watts
When we take action to avenge the ones we love, personal justice collides with social and “devine” justice…We become judge, jury, and “God”. With that choice comes daunting responsibility. Some men cave under that weight, others abuse the momentum. The true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The solution is always an equal mix of might and right. –Sam Crow
The economic and governmental systems that have emerged organically thru human existence have historically been built on our faults, and they are unable to change to discourage these faults. What the human race needs is a conscious effort to build a system without poverty and hierarchy. –Juraj Gagne Ozymandias
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life-form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life but now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another…the renunciation of Life itself…a falling towards inorganic inflexible machine…towards dead matter. –William S. Burroughs
The liberty of man consists soley in this…that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such…and not because they have been externally imposed on him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. –Mikhail Bukunin
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, more violent…but it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction. –Einstien
Those that urge men to submit to the rule of these corporations may justly be suspected of misunderstanding human nature, and of wishing to make man into machines. –Humboldt
The distribution of power in American society has survived, essentially undisturbed, all movements for reform. These movements appear in retrospect as essentially futile attempts at accomplishing, thru rational and moderate reform, what can only be accomplished by a radical shift in power and priorities, either thru the disentrigration of the existing power structure or thru revolution. –Hans Morgenthau
American society has chosen to reject it’s rhetorical commitment to equality and freedom and to use all the means at it’s disposal to preserve the existing system of injustice, at home and abroad, as it’s ultimate purpose. –Hans Morgenthau
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
- anon
‘Join the army, travel to exotic lands, meet exciting people, and kill them” – anon
“Culture contains the seed of resistance that blossoms into the flower of liberation.” -anon
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” – John Lennon
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” – Samuel Adams
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility
of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, depart
from us in peace. We
ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and
lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and
may posterity
forget that you were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.” – Patrick Henry
We are apt to shut our eyes against painful truth. For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.” – Patrick Henry
That we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the people” – Thomas Jefferson
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier a second and a third time til at length it becomes habitual – Thoma Jefferson
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” – Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of
our monied corporations which dare already to
challenge our government to a trial of strength, and
bid defiance to the laws our country.”
Thomas Jefferson
A little revolution, now and then, is a healthy thing.
It is as natural as lightning.
Thomas Jefferson
“Philosophy reminds
us who we are. We are animals that endlessly aspire to overcome ourselves. We
are creatures torn between the desire for stability and dissatisfaction with
what we have. Being human is, in its very core, a conundrum,”
― John Marmysz, The Nihilist: A Philosophical Novel
― John Marmysz, The Nihilist: A Philosophical Novel
“Here's to the crazy
ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square
holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they
have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some
may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy
enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Rob Siltanen
― Rob Siltanen
People dont get offended by what they know is false, they get offended by what they think might be true.
-Tony Hinchcliff
Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot reason are fools, and those who dare not...are slaves. -George Gordon Byron
“ Do you think that
no one before you has ever tried to rule the world in this way? History is the
graveyard of dead myths… Men create them, other men succumb to them- but only
for a time. In the end men always see through the illusions which other men,
mortals like themselves, have conjured up. The witch-doctor, the priest, king, emperor,
dictator- even the Messiah-in the end the myths they create crumble from
beneath their thrones and their bodies are dragged out to be spat on in the
market place. You cannot bind the spirit of man in chains of human forging.” -Jacinth to Rudolf in ‘Brother Cain’ by Simon
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