#467

The almost unsolvable task is to not let oneself be made stupid, neither by the power of the others nor by the own powerlessness.
T. W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

#466

If, uprooting from its heart the vice which dominates it and degrades its nature, the working class were to arise in its terrible strength, not to demand the Rights of Man, which are but the rights of capitalist exploitation, not to demand the Right to Work which is but the right to misery, but to forge a brazen law forbidding any man to work more than three hours a day, the earth, the old earth, trembling with joy would feel a new universe leaping within her.
Paul Lafargue

#465

You can’t blow up a social relationship. The total collapse of this society would provide no guarantee about what replaced it. Unless a majority of people had the ideas and organization sufficient for the creation of an alternative society, we would see the old world reassert itself because it is what people would be used to, what they believed in, what existed unchallenged in their own personalities.
Anarres Books Collective, You Can’t Blow up a Social Relationship

#464

Let us devastate the avenues where the wealthy live.
Lucy Parsons

#463

I believe, in spite of a long tradition of sometimes tragic intellectual errors, that observing, analyzing, and theorizing are a way of helping to build a different, better world. Not by providing the answers – that will be specific to each society and found by the social actors themselves – but by raising some relevant questions.
Manuel Castells

#462

If you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
Mahatma Gandhi

#461

Stretched to its absolute limit, ideology disintegrates: its supreme form is also its absolute zero: the night where all ideological cows are black.
Guy Debord

#460

Who is hungry is good.
Who is well-fed is bad.
It’s better to be hungry
than to be rich.
Irish saying

#459

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller

#458

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.
Anonymous

#457

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen