Truly enlightened is the man who learns to let his mask break, Fearful is the man who holds it together, and foolish is the man who bears it so long that it consumes him.
Anonymous
#482
#481
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
#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
#452
The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one’s methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.
Emma Goldman
#444
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus
#436
EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experience at firsthand – learns to determine the other positions in the TOTAL ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER… …THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL IS BORN.
Joseph Beuys
#432
This great evil. Where does it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doin’ this? Who’s killin’ us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin’ us with the sight of what we might’ve known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?
The Thin Red Line (the movie)
#429
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn’t born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can’t say it is finished.
Dario Fo
