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Quote for the day – January 31

31 Sunday Jan 2016

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“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history”.

Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid

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Quote for the day – January 30

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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“There are mystical moments when we seem to stop existing as an individual and are absorbed into everything that surrounds us – trees, mountains, rivers, wildlife. This is not an illusion that we are experiencing, but the falling-away of an illusion”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

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Quote for the day – January 26

26 Tuesday Jan 2016

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“One of the essential themes of this critique, which resurfaces like an obsession in the work of writers, poets, philosophers and historians, is the clash between Kultur, a spiritual realm of ethical, religious or aesthetic values, and Zivilisation, the vulgar materialist world of economic and technological progress. If capitalism is, according to Max Weber’s mercilessly perceptive expression, the disenchantment of the world (Entzauberung der Welt), then anti-capitalist Romanticism has to be seen primarily as a despairing and nostalgic attempt at the re-enchantment of the world”.

Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale

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Quote for the day – January 25

25 Monday Jan 2016

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“The wounds that mass society inflicts on the individual are real indicators of the dominant lie. The individual’s lack of integration into his or her environment is literally traumatic: the loss of common references, anonymity and fear lead to the collapse of socialisation, a lack of solidarity, a neurotic desire for safety, extremely dysfunctional behaviour and to everything which paves the pathological way for bulimia, anorexia, addiction, compulsive consumption, hypochondria, stress, depression and other modern syndromes”.

Miguel Amorós, The Totalitarian Town

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Quote for the day – January 24

24 Sunday Jan 2016

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“Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity – I belong to the earth!”

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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Quote for the day – January 23

23 Saturday Jan 2016

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“It is time for the insight that there is no individual, but only unities and communities. It is not true that collective names designate only a sum of individuals: on the contrary, individuals are only manifestations and points of reference, electric sparks of something grand and whole”.

Gustav Landauer, Skepsis und Mystik

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