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Browsing Quotes With Tag: activism (8)

  • You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

    Speaker: Alan Furst
    Source: Night Soldiers: A Novel
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 24 Dec 2014 at 9:30 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: activism, politics, war

  • If democracy is to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.

    Speaker: David Graeber
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:38 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: activism, democracy, government

  • The one thing that’s clear is that new ideas won’t emerge without the jettisoning of much of our accustomed categories of thought— which have become mostly sheer dead weight, if not intrinsic parts of the very apparatus of hopelessness—and formulating new ones. This is why I spent so much of this book talking about the market, but also about the false choice between state and market that so monopolized political ideology for the last centuries that it made it difficult to argue about anything else.

    Speaker: David Graeber
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:36 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: activism, government, politics, progress, wealth

  • To begin to free ourselves, the first thing we need to do is to see ourselves again as historical actors, as people who can make a difference in the course of world events. This is exactly what the militarization of history is trying to take away.
    Even if we are at the beginning of the turn of a very long historical cycle, it’s still largely up to us to determine how it’s going to turn out. For instance: the last time we shifted from a bullion economy to one of virtual credit money, at the end of the Axial Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages, the immediate shift was experienced largely as a series of great catastrophes. Will it be the same this time around? Presumably a lot depends on how consciously we set out to ensure that it won’t be.

    Speaker: David Graeber
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:35 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: action, activism, history, wealth

  • No man made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

    Speaker: Edmund Burke
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:50 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: 80, action, activism

  • For fear of becoming dinosaurs we are turned into sheep.

    Speaker: Garret Keizer
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:45 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: action, activism, independence, individuality

  • Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes.

    Speaker: Albert Camus
    Source: the Rebel
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:43 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: activism, democracy, silence

  • Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

    Speaker: Alice Walker
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:25 PM
    Posted By: DailyActivist
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    Tags: activism, living, rent