January 2012
2 posts
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have...”
– Muhammad Ali on willpower
On Living by Nazim Hikmet
I Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example— I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such a degree that, for example, your hands tied behind your back, your back to the wall, or else in a...
December 2011
17 posts
“If you don’t let us dream, we won’t let you sleep.”
– Statement of the year by the Indignados
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire...”
– Elwyn Brooks White on the dilemma of everyday life
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...”
– Noam Chomsky on strategizing a better world
“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their...”
– Max Horkheimer on conformism
“Activism is my rent for living on this planet.”
– Alice Walker on the ontology of protest
“We have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. If you’re...”
– Terrence McKenna on cultural diversion and authenticity
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston on love and individuation
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung on introspection
“This enemy of ours is not just Wall Street, it’s the whole culture. It’s a way...”
– Grace Lee Boggs on system change and culture (via oisinnow)
“Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its...”
– Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
– George Santayana on historical necessity
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill...”
– Frantz Fanon on generational narrative
November 2011
19 posts
“The mass strike is a universal form of the proletarian class struggle resulting...”
– Rosa Luxemburg on the mass strike
“The true utopia is the belief that the existing global system can go on...”
– Slavoj Žižek on utopia and realism
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain on life
“Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center...”
– Erich Fromm on love and existence
“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception. The existent...”
– Simone de Beauvoir on (women’s) oppression and emancipation
“Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young...”
– Simone de Beauvoir on the coming of age in capitalism
“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away...”
– Simone de Beauvoir on oppression and emancipation
“The poorest of all is not the person without a penny, but the person without a...”
– Unknown author on poverty
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original...”
– Oscar Wilde on the progressive effects of subversiveness
“Apa datang dari muka djangan undur e!”
– Moluccan battle cry
“Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense....”
– Emma Goldman on woman’s emancipation
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway on exterior vs. interior superiority
“Berani karena benar (Be courageous, because it’s right)”
– Old Malay saying
“The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice....”
– Mohandas Gandhi on sacrifice
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could...”
– Charles Bukowski on dedication
“The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly...”
– Karl Marx on materialism
“The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions,...”
– Vladimir Lenin on crisis and revolution
“There’s hardly anything more important that people can learn than the fact...”
– Howard Zinn on people power
“If one person has a dollar he didn’t work for, some other person worked...”
– Bill Haywood on exploitation
October 2011
9 posts
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
– Plato on the consequences of indifference
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the...”
– Desmond Tutu on taking sides
“It is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the...”
– Karl Marx on base and superstructure
“Capitalism has created more prosperity than history has ever witnessed, but the...”
– Terry Eagleton on the nature of capitalism
“Take a look outside it’s where the truth is really told.”
– Marvin Gaye on counterpropaganda
“If we all spit together we can drown the bastards!”
– Tony Cliff on the 99% vs the 1%
“Sometimes decades pass and nothing happens; and sometimes weeks pass and decades...”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on being and event
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and...”
– Henry Ford (American symbol of capitalism) on the relation between ideological mechanisms, collective consciousness and social revolt
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
– Bertolt Brecht on the original gangstas
September 2011
12 posts
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix on de-alienation
“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
– Kurt Cobain
“♫ I wish I knew how it would feel to be free. I wish I could break all the...”
– Nina Simone on life, love and freedom