February 2012
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser...
– Cornel West (via timmyp10)
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs;...
– Emma Goldman, “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For.” (via seancarville)
It is a degradation to a human being to chain him to an oar and use him as a...
– Dr. Norbert Wiener, the “Father of Cybernetics” (via therikeone)
At its root literature is writing for nothing; a pathological extravagance whose...
– Nick Land. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. 1992 (via hate-wizard)
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard...
– Carl Roger (via psych-quotes)
Crucially, an opposition to capitalism and landlordism, and a politics of class...
– Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt - Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (2009)
The Framers also recognized a second reason to oppose the linkage of state and...
– PoliticalProf, laying it down. I recommend The Godless Constitution for further reading on the subject. Not a few of the strongest advocates for the Separation of Church and State in colonial America were religious leaders who recognized that melding church and state together (where the terms...
A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
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In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are...
– George Orwell (via thinksquad)