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If there is really authentic popular participation in the decision-making and the free association of communities, yeah, that could be tremendously important. In fact that's essentially the traditional anarchist ideal. That's what was realized the only time for about a year in Spain in 1936 before it was crushed by outside forces, in fact all outside forces, Stalinst Russia, Hitler in Germany, Mussilini's fascism and the Western democracies cooperated in crushing it. They were all afraid of it.
Noam ChomskyAuthor
Interview by Eva Golinger (September 28, 2007)
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anarchy   fascism   Spain 1936   Tags
Whenever people think of Orwell today they usually think also of security cameras and ‘Big Brother’. Orwell represents much more than that. He saw that language and writing can be perverted to deceive people rather than inform them. If we remember that single lesson then his legacy will remain secure.
Nick BardsleyAuthor
Orwell is funny
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Big Brother   deception   doublespeak   language   Orwell   words   Tags
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James ThurberAuthor
illumination   light   obscuration   Tags
It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy. No time for reflection. No time to contract before another expansion. No time to grow up. No time to fuck up. No time to learn from your mistakes. But that notion goes against nature, which is cyclical.
George CarlinAuthor
Playboy interview
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cycles   expansion   nature   productivity   profits   Tags
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
Italian ProverbAuthor
death   life   Tags
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
Leonardo da VinciAuthor
animal   human   murder   Tags
I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful. It is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. This morally we can do.
Henry David ThoreauAuthor
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Keep your heart clear and transparent
And you will never be bound.
A single disturbed thought, though,
Creates ten thousand distractions.
Let myriad things captivate you
And you’ll go further and further astray.
How painful to see people
All wrapped up in themselves.
RyokanAuthor
mindfulness   Tags
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen ZenjiAuthor
meditation   mindfulness   simplicity   truth   Tags
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Assata ShakurAuthor
enemies   fools   Tags

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