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Quote for the day – July 31

31 Friday Jul 2015

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Henry Salt

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“We must discard the present philosophy of work as a good in itself, in the knowledge that centuries of labour have but resulted in the demoralisation of the few and the degradation of the many”.

Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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Quote for the day – July 30

30 Thursday Jul 2015

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land, Shawnees, Tecumseh

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“Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country, bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, Never! Never!”

Tecumseh of the Shawnees

Quote for the day – July 29

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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Keith Thomas

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“It was the abandonment of magic which made possible the upsurge of technology, not the other way round. Indeed, as Max Weber stressed, magic was potentially ‘one of the most serious obstructions to the rationalisation of economic life’. The technological primacy of Western civilization, it can be argued, owes a sizeable debt to the fact that in Europe recourse to magic was to prove less ineradicable than in other parts of the world”.

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic

Quote for the day – July 28

28 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Hermann Hesse

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“Everything on earth, every single thing, has its will. Every stone, every blade of grass, every flower, every shrub, every animal grows, lives, moves and feels in accordance with its ‘self-will’, and that is why the world is good, rich and beautiful.”

Hermann Hesse, ‘Self-will’

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Quote for the day – July 27

27 Monday Jul 2015

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Papatūānuku, Paul Cudenec, The Green One

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“I am powerful Papatūānuku of the Māori peoples. Any woman’s womb, her te whare tangata, is the house of humanity, and from my womb I give birth to all living things and then nourish them, not just physically but emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. My placenta is whenua, the land, the source of all thought, values and principles”.

Paul Cudenec, The Green One

[Read about Paul Cudenec on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – July 26

26 Sunday Jul 2015

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Jacques Ellul

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“The myth of Progress has killed the revolutionary spirit and the possibility of becoming conscious of the current revolutionary necessity”.

Jacques Ellul, De la révolution aux révoltes

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Quote for the day – July 25

25 Saturday Jul 2015

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Colin Wilson

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“Now the Outsider is not necessarily the rebel, but the rebel is undoubtedly a most important type of Outsider. The rebel attempts to assert that existence comes before essence, that Will comes before authority”.

Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel

Quote for the day – July 24

24 Friday Jul 2015

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George Woodcock

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“At the same time as they proclaim their urgent desire to liberate themselves from the dead hand of tradition, anarchists like to believe that their roots run deep into the past, and the paradox is only apparent”.

George Woodcock, The Anarchist Reader

Quote for the day – July 23

23 Thursday Jul 2015

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Sharon Beder

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“Corporations clearly have far greater financial resources at their disposal. As pressure groups, they can invest millions of dollars into grassroots organising, polls, lawyers, computer and satellite technology, video news releases, and professional advice to put their case directly to politicians and government officials and to garner public support”.

Sharon Beder, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism

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Quote for the day – July 22

22 Wednesday Jul 2015

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Michael Bakunin

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“The worker’s liberty, so much exalted by the economists, jurists, and bourgeois republicans, is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means for its possible realization, and consequently it is only a fictitious liberty, an utter falsehood. The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom – voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense – broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery”.

Mikhail Bakunin, Philosophical Considerations

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