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The split in our language between “political” and “personal” has, I think, been a trap.
-Adrienne Rich
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength never power. Above all to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget"
-Arundhati Roy
"Someone
made me more alive,
more human;
I repay that gift
by making more alive
someone else".
-Dennis Brutus
"The world economy is the most efficient expression of organized crime. The international bodies that control currency, trade, and credit practice international terrorism against poor countries, and against the poor of all countries, with a cold-blooded professionalism that would make the best of the bomb throwers blush."
-Eduardo Galeano
"To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves"
-Carrie Chapman Catt (US suffragette)
"There are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about.. things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight"
-Phillip Pullman
"Writing must teach man soberness: to be awake"
-Zbignew Herbert
"The intellectual responsibility of the writer as moral agent is obvious: to try to find out and tell the truth as best one can about matters of human significance to the right audience."
-Stanley Cohen, States of Denial
"Is this why the more I know the louder I lament?"
-Mahmoud Darwish
"The power of the dominant order is not just economic but intellectual-lying in the realm of beliefs"
-Pierre Bourdieu
"Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose".
-Tony Judt
"Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance".
-Mahmoud Darwish
"The markets have ruled for a third of a century but it has all ended in tears... Any great failure should force us to rethink. The present economic crises is a great failure of the market system"
-Robert Skidelsky
"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power".
-Howard Zinn, US Historian and Author
"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things"
-Tom Waits
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life"
-Rachel Carson
"To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards to deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death".
-Jules Henry, Culture against Man
"accuracy is essential/ we must not be wrong/
even by a single one /we are despite everything/the guardians of our brothers/ignorance about those who have disappeared/ undermines the reality of the world"
-Zbigniew Herbert
"Climate change is not a future problem for wise statesmen to patiently work to avert. It's a right now, present tense, capital-E Emergency."
-Bill McKibben
"This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... ."
-Michael Lerner
"The government has thus been remade in the image of the business firm. And in this way, it has become subject to all of the administrative and organizational pathologies that bring large businesses to grief. It has come to absorb every great innovation in corporate mismanagement, deception, market manipulation and fraud of the past forty years"
-James K Galbraith, The Predator State
"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead to freedom or constitute a proof for its existence"
-Hannah Arendt
"The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield. I believe that we can be compatriots of many different kinds of people, even though they are born far from our own lands and in other places and in other times".
-Eduardo Galeano
"The consuming life is a life of rapid learning- and swift forgetting"
-Zygmunt Bauman
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist"
-Kenneth Boulding
"The powers that be, bent on inculcating narrow-gauged formulas about the necessities of human nature and human society- on the acceptance of which the continuation of their hegemony depends- must always vilify those purveying a more sanguine message".
-Martin Duberman, writing about Paul Robeson
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