oh, yes. i'am a quote whore.
"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling...their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." ~arundhati royCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
~emma goldman
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
~emma goldman
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
~emma goldman
If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!
~emma goldman
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. ~emma goldman
When we can't dream any longer we die.
~emma goldman
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
~thich nhat hahn
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
~thich naht hahn
“People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so sure that they are about to be conned by their neighbor, or by their mother, or by their sister, or their grandmother. What's the use of having fifty percent of the world's wealth, or whatever it is that you have, if you're going to live this pathetic, terrified life?” ~arundhati roy
“Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.”
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~eugene v. debs
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~albert einstein
"There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace." ~ben franklin
"Today the world is run by three of the most secretive institutions in the world: The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, all three of which, in turn, are dominated by the U.S. Their decisions are made in secret. The people who head them are appointed behind closed doors. Nobody really knows anything about them, their politics, their beliefs, their intentions. Nobody elected them. Nobody said they could make decisions on our behalf." - Arundhati Roy
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a
living thing can go against it. ~ G.K. Chesterton
The question is not 'can you make a difference?'
You already do make a difference. It's just a matter
of what kind of difference you want to make,
during your life on this planet. ~Julia Butterfly Hill
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice. ~Noam Chomsky
Powerlessness and silence go together. We...should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world's reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. It should be cherished and used. ~Margaret Atwood
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those
who in times of crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~Dante
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to
tell people what they do not want to hear. ~George Orwell
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Neither certain nor indifferent. ~Jostein Gaarder
Certainty stops thought. Indifference stops action.
Find the middle ground! ~Peter Blanchard
Never doubt that a small number of dedicated people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead
When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new
culture is created by a few people who are not afraid
to be insecure. ~Rudolf Bahro
A key is just a bunch of little angles, in the right
combination. ~JP Warren
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now. ~Goethe
"Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle" ~Mohandas Gandhi
"Only when the last tree has died, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught... will we realize that we cannot eat money." ~19th century Cree saying
"People today recognize fewer than ten plants but over one thousand corporate logos" ~Adbusters magazine
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" ~Edward Abbey
“it is not a sign of good health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.” ~j. krishnamurti
“When I give food to the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why the hungry have no food, they call me a communist.” ~helder camara
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
~buddha
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat. ~Rebecca West
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. ~albert einstein
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. ~albert Einstein
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~hemmingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~hemmingway
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. ~hermann goering
As I've often told Ginsberg, you can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold. ~ken kesey
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." ~Thomas Jefferson
posted by supergirlest @ Tuesday, August 08, 2006
