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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Hannah Arendt

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

Hannah Arendt

Like all highs, freedom highs can be abused, can even become addictive, but these autonomous zones, however temporary, can have extraordinarily joyful power. They say 'No!' but they also say a great 'Yes!' to life lived intensely and meaningfully.

T.V. Reed

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If our conversation is to have meaning, it must be to make that 'No!' louder, to magnify the pain and the fury and the dignity. There is always a danger that by placing an object in a museum, you silence it, you [..] dumb it down.

John Holloway

https://arthistory.berkel ... isobedient-roundtable.pdf

The absolute best selfcare you can invest in is learning how to suffer.

If you love, you will suffer. If you live with courage, you will suffer. If you see beauty, you will suffer. If you explore the world, you will suffer.

We cannot avoid hard things without avoiding life.

Robin

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Glory be to God for dappled things –
   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                                Praise him.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.

Christabel Pankhurst

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.

Hannah Arendt

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

Bell Hooks

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Bell Hooks

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Laughter helps one to find a place in the world, but ironically, which is to say, without selling one’s soul to it.

Hannah Arendt

Unter den Marken des Syndikalismus und Faschismus erscheint zum ersten Mal in Europa ein Menschentypus, der darauf verzichtet, Gründe anzugeben und recht zu haben, der sich schlechtweg entschlossen zeigt, seine Meinung durchzusetzen. Das ist neu: das Recht darauf, nicht recht zu haben, Grundlosigkeit als Grund. Die neue Einstellung der Masse manifestiert sich nach meiner Meinung am sinnfälligsten in ihrem Anspruch, die Gesellschaft zu führen, ohne dazu fähig zu sein. Aber wenn die Struktur der neuen Seele auch nirgends so grob und unverhüllt zutage tritt wie in ihrem politischen Gebaren, der Schlüssel liegt doch in ihrer geistigen Absperrung. Der durschnittliche Mensch entdeckt "Gedanken" an sich, aber er kann nicht denken. Er ahnt nicht einmal, wie scharf und rein die Luft ist, in der Gedanken leben. Er will "meinen", aber er will die Bedingungen und Vorraussetzungen alles Meinens nicht anerkennen. Darum sind seine Gedanken in Wahrheit nur Triebe in logischer Verkleidung.

José Ortega y Gasset

"Der Aufstand der Massen"

The ruling ideology sees to it that subversive discoveries are trivialized and sterilized, after which they can be safely spectacularized.

Guy Debord

Echtes ehren, Schlechtem wehren, Schweres üben, Schönes lieben.

Paul Heyse

In seeking my own restoration and that of those I had wounded, it became clear I wanted restoration for those who hurt me as well. I wanted their humanity recognized and whatever twisted them acknowledged. I wanted healing and restoration for generations.

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There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Desmond Tutu

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

Bill Hicks

Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for nothing or for very little. And here, too, that Spanish proverb holds good, which declares that honor and money are not to be found in the same purse—honora y provecho no caben en un saco.

Arthur Schopenhauer

"On Authorship"

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.
When she doesn’t respond,  
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

Jeffrey McDaniel

"The Quiet World"