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Quote for the day – February 29

29 Monday Feb 2016

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Hans Driesch, vitalism

 

Hans Driesch vitalism

“The object is not the mere sum of its attributes: it is their unity – it is all the attributes together”.

Hans Driesch, The History and Theory of Vitalism

[Read about Hans Driesch on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – the whole year

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We have now built up a quote for the day to cover the whole of the year. To find a specific day use the search box or look through the month below.

We reserve the right to change the quotes from time to time, as the mood takes us!

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Quote for the day – December 13

13 Sunday Dec 2015

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culture, Herbert Read, poetry

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“There is no culture unless an intimate relationship, on the level of instinct, exists between a people and its poets”.

Herbert Read, The Forms of Things Unknown

[Find out about Herbert Read on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – July 27

27 Monday Jul 2015

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Papatūānuku, Paul Cudenec, The Green One

Papatūānuku

“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 – June 2

02 Tuesday Jun 2015

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France, Sivens

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“Our opposition therefore goes both beyond environmentalism and against it if necessary – against all its language borrowed from technocrats, administrators and politicians. Our opposition carries within it, admittedly in a rather unformed way, the dream of another way of living, free from commodities, free from the state and free from industrial work. A life which can only develop from below and which can, necessarily, only be realised through conflict”.

Campaigners against Sivens dam in France, Sivens sans retenue: Feuilles d’automne 2014

Quote for the day – June 1

01 Monday Jun 2015

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Gustav Landauer

Anarchy is life

“Anarchy is life; the life that awaits us after we have freed ourselves from the yoke”

Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings

[Read about Gustav Landauer on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – May 30

30 Saturday May 2015

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Guillaume Carnino

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“Anyone who hopes to be free must first be aware of their chains and not just carry on living as if they weren’t there”.

Guillaume Carnino, Divertir pour dominer

Quote for the day – May 28

28 Thursday May 2015

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Walter Benjamin

hiroshima

“His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress”.

Walter Benjamin describes the angel of history, Illuminations

[Read about Walter Benjamin on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – May 27

27 Wednesday May 2015

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Michael Bakunin

sheep voting

“Men once believed that the establishment of universal suffrage would guarantee the freedom of the people. That, alas, was a great illusion…”

Michael (Mikhail) Bakunin, Oeuvres

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Quote for the day – May 26

26 Tuesday May 2015

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France

Nous sommes la nature

“We are not fighting for nature – we are nature defending itself!”

French anti-industrial slogan

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The Acorn – 80

Number 80 In this issue: Chemicals, cancer and corruption: a special report Rising up for our land Edward Carpenter: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. Chemicals, cancer and corruption: a special report i. Poisoned for profit Thousands of adults and children could be suffering from cancers and other serious illnesses because of the UK’s collusion […]

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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