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Quote for the day – March 31

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Michael Bakunin

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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]

 

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – March 30

30 Monday Mar 2015

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anarchism, civilization, culture, France, Michael Löwy

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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

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Quote for the day – March 29

29 Sunday Mar 2015

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Betsy Mackay, Highland Clearances, John Prebble, Scotland

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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)

Quote for the day – March 28

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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Anabaptists, Münster, rebellion

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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

Quote for the day – March 27

27 Friday Mar 2015

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Alexis Escudero

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“For the cyber-liberal left there is no equality without recourse to biotechnology”.

Alexis Escudero, La reproduction artificielle de l’humain

[Read about Alexis Escudero on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – March 26

26 Thursday Mar 2015

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death, freedom, life, Spinoza

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“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death”.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Quote for the day – March 25

25 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Colin Wilson, existentialism, intuition

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“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

Quote for the day – March 24

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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capitalism, clocks, George Woodcock, industry, tyranny

George Woodcock

“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

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – March 23

23 Monday Mar 2015

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Henry David Thoreau

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“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest”. 

Henry David Thoreau, ‘Civil Disobedience’

[Read about Henry David Thoreau on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – March 22

22 Sunday Mar 2015

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Derrick Jensen, Endgame, environment

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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

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