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Quote for the day – June 30

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies

Child playing in woods

“The return to nature is an abandonment not of the benefits but of the evils of the civilised state, a reversion not to the vices but to the virtues of wild natural life”.

Henry S. Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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Quote for the day – June 29

29 Monday Jun 2015

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anarchism, Herbert Read, industrialism, poetry

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“I despise this foul industrial epoch”.

Herbert Read, Poetry and Anarchism

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Quote for the day – June 28

28 Sunday Jun 2015

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Guy Debord

“There remains nothing, in culture or in nature, which has not been transformed, and polluted, according to the means and interests of modern industry”.

Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle

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Quote for the day – June 27

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“The prophet souls and not the priest minds, the original men of understanding and not the mechanical imitation of the inherited habits are needed to help our wandering generation to fashion a goal for itself. Prophecy is insight. It is vision. It is anticipating experience. It is seeing the present so fully as to to foresee the future”.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, An Idealist View of Life 

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Quote for the day – June 26

26 Friday Jun 2015

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Customs in Common, E.P. Thompson, police, violence

police-brutality

“A great part of politics and law is always theatre; once a social system has become ‘set’, it does not need to be endorsed daily by exhibitions of power (although occasional punctuations of force will be made to define the limits of the system’s tolerance)”.

E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common

 

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – June 25

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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Russia, Voline

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“To maintain that anarchism is only a theory of classes is to limit it to a single viewpoint. Anarchism is more complex and pluralistic, like life itself. Its class element is above all its means of fighting for liberation; its humanitarian character is its ethical aspect, the foundation of society; its individualism is the goal of mankind”.

Voline and other Russian anarchists

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – June 24

24 Wednesday Jun 2015

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Guy Debord, The Spectacle

brainwashed

“The individual who has been more deeply marked by this impoverished spectacular thought than by any other aspect of his experience puts himself at the service of the established order right from the start, even though subjectively he may have had quite the opposite intention. He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with; the one in which he learned to speak. No doubt he would like to be regarded as an enemy of its rhetoric; but he will use its syntax. This is one of the most important aspects of spectacular domination’s success”.

Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle

[Read about Guy Debord on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – June 23

23 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Black Elk, sacred tree

sacred_tree

“It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds”.

Black Elk

Quote for the day – June 22

22 Monday Jun 2015

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Michael Bakunin

anarchists-in-london

“In a word, we reject all legislation – privileged, licensed, official and legal – and all authority, and influence, even though they may emanate from universal suffrage, for we are convinced that it can turn only to the advantage of a dominant minority of exploiters against the interests of the vast majority in subjection to them. It is in this sense that we are really Anarchists”.

Mikhail Bakunin, The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution

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Quote for the day – June 21

21 Sunday Jun 2015

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coercion, individual, Joseph Campbell

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“Coerced to the social pattern, the individual can only harden to some figure of living death; and if any considerable number of the members of a civilization are in this predicament, a point of no return will have been passed”.

Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Creative Mythology

[Read about Joseph Campbell on the orgrad website]

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