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Quote for the day – October 31

31 Saturday Oct 2015

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Henry Miller, industrialism

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“The same story everywhere. If you want bread you’ve got to get in harness, get in lock step. Over all the earth a gray desert, a carpet of steel and cement. Production! More nuts and bolts, more barbed wire, more dog biscuits, more lawn mowers, more ball bearings, more high explosives, more tanks, more poison gas, more soap, more toothpaste, more newspapers, more education, more churches, more libraries, more museums. Forward!”

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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Quote for the day – October 30

30 Friday Oct 2015

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Georges Lapierre

“In a mercantile society we are all merchants, our heads are filled with the thoughts of big capitalist merchants, we all think about money.”

Georges Lapierre, être ouragans: écrits de la dissidence

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Quote for the day – October 29

29 Thursday Oct 2015

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Fredy Perlman

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“Usurers are the greatest Lords and princes of the realm. Greatness comes, not to those who serve the gods, but to those who serve the devil… ”

Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!

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Quote for the day – October 28

28 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Theodore Roszak

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“Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban-industrialism”.

Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends

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Quote for the day – October 27

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Peter Kropotkin

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“For ages and ages mankind lived without any written law, even that graved in symbols upon the entrance stones of a temple. During that period, human relations were simply regulated by customs, habits and usages, made sacred by constant repetition, and acquired by each person in childhood, exactly as he learned how to obtain his food by hunting, cattle-rearing or agriculture”.

Peter Kropotkin, Law and Authority

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Quote for the day – October 26

26 Monday Oct 2015

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Martin Buber

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“In general, the world of objects in every culture is more extensive than that of its predecessor. Despite sundry stoppages and apparent retrogressions, the progressive augmentation of the world of It is to be clearly discerned in history”.

Martin Buber, I and Thou

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Quote for the day – October 25

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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Bright Green Lies, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert

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“The industrial economy is based on systematic theft from land bases, and the conversion of these living communities into dead products. That’s what an industrial economy is. The economy does not create value for the real world: It destroys the real world”.

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert, Bright Green Lies:

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Quote for the day – October 24

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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Plotinus, The Enneads

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“The secret is: firstly that this All is one universally comprehensive living being, encircling all the living beings within it, and having a soul, one soul, which extends to all its members in the degree of participant membership held by each; secondly, that every separate thing is an integral part of this All by belonging to the total material fabric”.

Plotinus, The Enneads

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Quote for the day – October 23

23 Friday Oct 2015

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Val Plumwood

 

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“Reason in the western tradition has been constructed as the privileged domain of the master, who has conceived nature as a wife or subordinate other encompassing and representing the sphere of materiality, subsistence and the feminine which the master has split off and constructed as beneath him”.

Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

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Quote for the day – October 22

22 Thursday Oct 2015

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Herbert Read

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“Deep down in my consciousness is the consciousness of a collective life, a life of which I am part and to which I contribute a minute but unique extension. When I die and fall, the tree remains, nourished to some small degree by my brief manifestations of life. Millions of leaves have preceded me and millions will follow me; the tree itself grows and endures”.

Herbert Read, The Contrary Experience

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