Quote for the day – May 9

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civilization, Gandhi

“Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin”.

Mohandas Gandhi, Hind Swaraj

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Quote for the day – March 30

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anarchism, civilization, culture, France, Michael Löwy

“In France, as everywhere else, nostalgia for certain moral values from the past, the idealisation of certain pre-capitalist social forms (rural living or cottage industry) and the rejection of industrial/bourgeois civilization were an essential component of anarchist culture”.

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

[Read about Michael Löwy on the orgrad website]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – February 15

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civilization, Linda Schierse Leonard

“Western civilization is experiencing a Dark Night of the Soul due to our self-asserting will to control, epitomized by the technology that we expect to provide us with a secure, happy and comfortable life”.

Linda Schierse Leonard, Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction