31 Tuesday Mar 2015
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“We must first of all purify our atmosphere and transform completely the surroundings in which we live, for they corrupt our instincts and our wills, they constrict our hearts and our intelligences”.
Mikhail Bakunin, Appeal to the Slavs
[Read about Mikhail Bakunin on the orgrad website]
30 Monday Mar 2015
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“In France, as everywhere else, nostalgia for certain moral values from the past, the idealisation of certain pre-capitalist social forms (rural living or cottage industry) and the rejection of industrial/bourgeois civilization were an essential component of anarchist culture”.
Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale
[Read about Michael Löwy on the orgrad website]
29 Sunday Mar 2015
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“The people had to escape for their lives, some of them losing all their clothes except what they had on their backs. The people were told they could go where they liked, provided they did not encumber the land that was by rights their own. The people were driven away like dogs who deserved no better”.
Betsy Mackay (quoted by John Prebble in The Highland Clearances)
28 Saturday Mar 2015
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“We have abandoned all which is contrary to our love of community and we would rather die than to return to the previous ways which, enslaved to egotism and property, lead to buying and selling, working for money, practising usury, eating and drinking the sweat of the poor”.
Declaration from rebel town of Münster, 1534
27 Friday Mar 2015
Posted in civilization, death, life, Quote
“Dracula, king of the vampires, is the perfect fin-de-siècle cultural horror: something living hundreds of years yet dead, something dead but undead, draining the vitality of the living, like European Civilization itself”.
Richard Noll, The Jung Cult: The Origins of a Charismatic Movement
26 Thursday Mar 2015
25 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in existentialism, Quote
“Existentialism is the revolt against mere logic and reason. It is a plea for intuition and vision. It is a plea for recognising oneself as being involved in the problems of existence as a participant, not just as a spectator”.
Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel
24 Tuesday Mar 2015
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“Because, without some means of exact time keeping, industrial capitalism could never have developed and could not continue to exploit the workers, the clock represents an element of mechanical tyranny in the lives of modern men more potent than any individual exploiter or than any other machine…”
George Woodcock, The Rejection of Politics
23 Monday Mar 2015
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22 Sunday Mar 2015
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“Begging government and industry to stop destroying the planet and to stop killing people the world over is never going to work. It can’t”.
Derrick Jensen, Endgame
[Read about Derrick Jensen on the orgrad website]
