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Quote for the day – February 9

09 Tuesday Feb 2016

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Forms of Freedom, Paul Cudenec

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“A people living on the land enjoys a certain independence that is unknown to urban populations. Access to food is direct. People enjoy a certain relationship to nature and its rhythms, which are also the rhythms of their own lives. This relationship is included within a culture shared by those living in the same area. This collective culture is a living entity, as real and complex as the ‘personality’ of an individual”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

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Quote for the day – January 11

11 Monday Jan 2016

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Renaud Garcia

 

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“Declaring war on subsistence means dissolving the autonomous ways of life of thousands of people and thereby enslaving them to commercial needs which they can only fulfil by going out to earn a wage”

Renaud Garcia, Le Sens des limites

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Quote for the day – January 10

10 Sunday Jan 2016

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Forms of Freedom, Paul Cudenec

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“Freedom is regarded as something to be feared, rather than to be treasured or fought for. Limited, specific freedoms – civil liberties, freedoms-from – are tolerated because they are known, controllable factors. The idea of complete freedom, a freedom-to-act-as-we-see-fit, however, strikes dread into the heart of those with a negative or non-existent conception of human nature”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

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Quote for the day – November 29

29 Sunday Nov 2015

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Forms of Freedom, Paul Cudenec

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“The idea that we cannot have complete unrestricted freedom is based on the assumption that human beings cannot be trusted with that. The idea that we cannot be trusted is based on the assumption that there is no such thing as an innate tendency to goodness and co-operation. The idea that there is no innate tendency to goodness is based on the assumption that goodness is an artificial construct devoid of any practical content, rather than an inherent aspect of humanity’s ability to survive. The idea that this innate goodness has nothing to do with survival is based on the assumption that humanity is merely a collection of individuals, with their own personal survival as a priority, rather than a social organism with collective survival as its aim”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

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Quote for the day – November 1

01 Sunday Nov 2015

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E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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“Centralisation is mainly an idea of order; decentralisation, one of freedom”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

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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 7

07 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Martin Buber

“Only the man who makes freedom real to himself meets destiny”.

Martin Buber, I and Thou

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Quote for the day – July 14

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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anarchism, Food Not Bombs, Keith McHenry

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“As free thinkers we can encourage a great transformation of the human spirit where we find solutions outside the left-right paradigm. That discussion and search must continue in earnest. I am done with the left-right divide. It’s now the humans versus the deadly robotic corporate state. ”.

Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs, 2022 Interview

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Ramping up the global inquisition

by Paul Cudenec A few weeks back I wrote a piece about the way that anyone who challenges the dominant political agenda is liable to undergo a shaming, smearing, witch-hunting attack by what I called “the voice of the system”. The case in question concerned a left-environmental publication in France which had dared to state […]

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