"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. Theres something wrong there."
Trebuie sa recunosc cinstit ca am invatat mai multe de la Google, - ca sa zic asa :) - decat in intreaga scoala. Azi am mai dat peste cateva citate "grele":
Împăcându-te cu un nenorocit, îi vei da ocazia să te nenorocească din nou. Uneori oamenii adună toată frica, toată neștiința, toată neputința lor într-un ghem de emoții râncede, urcă acest ghem pe un pedestal și îl numesc "Dumnezeu". Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a brighter day.
"Problema
noastră nu este nesupunerea civică. Problema noastră este obedienţa
civică. Problema noastră este că oamenii din întreaga lume s-au supus
ordinelor unor lideri şi milioane dintre ei au fost ucişi din cauza
acestei obedienţe. Problema noastră este că oamenii din întreaga lume
sunt obedienţi în faţa sărăciei şi înfometării şi prostiei şi războiului
şi cruzimii. Problema noastră este că oamenii sunt obedienţi atunci
când închisorile sunt pline de hoţi mărunţi şi marii hoţi ne conduc
ţara. Asta este problema noastră !"
Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
"Defend yourself against property!" – local grafiti
"If ya can't say 'fuck', ya can't say 'fuck the government!'" – Lenny Bruce
"The object of science is to rediscover the natural articulations of a universe we have carved artificially." – Henri Bergson
"The American Revolution was waged to preserve the right to own slaves, unimpeded
– Its Civil War was fought that we could all become slaves, undistinguished." – Historical Documents
"From the Indian's point of view, 'white man' is not a race, it's a psycho-social disorder." – Sequoia Chesterfiel
History which keeps alive the memory of people's resistance suggests new definitions of power. By traditional definitions, whoever possesses military strength, wealth, command of official ideology, cultural control, has power. Measured by these standards, popular rebellion never looks strong enough to survive.
However, the unexpected victories – even temporary ones – of insurgents show the vulnerability of the supposedly powerful. In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport and communications workers, garbage men and firemen. These people – the employed, the somewhat privileged – are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.
That will happen, I think, only when all of us who are slightly privileged and slightly uneasy begin to see that we are like the guards in the prison uprising at Attica – expendable; that the Establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain its control, kill us.
– Howard Zinn
“Under how many subtilties or absurdities has the divine right to govern been imposed on the credulity of mankind? ... That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living or the dead?”
– Thomas Paine
"And first, please to understand that our present system of Society is based on a state of perpetual war. Do any of you think that this is as it should be? I know that you have often been told that the competition, which is at present the rule of all production, is a good thing, and stimulates the progress of the race; but the people who tell you this should call competition by its shorter name of war if they wish to be honest, and you would then be free to consider whether or no war stimulates progress, otherwise than as a mad bull chasing you over your own garden may do. War or competition, whichever you please to call it, means at the best pursuing your own advantage at the cost of some one else’s loss, and in the process of it you must not be sparing of destruction even of your own possessions, or you will certainly come by the worse in the struggle. You understand that perfectly as to the kind of war in which people go out to kill and be killed; that sort of war in which ships are commissioned, for instance, “to sink, burn, and destroy;” but it appears that you are not so conscious of this waste of goods when you are only carrying on that other war called commerce; observe, however, that the waste is there all the same."
"The labourers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once became thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing would withstand them; they would only have to stop labour, regard the product of labour as theirs, and enjoy it. This is the sense of the labour disturbances which show themselves here and there. The state rests on the slavery of labour. If labour becomes free, the state is lost."
Forget
the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there
to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You
have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They
own all the important land. They own and control the corporations.
They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the
statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back
pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control
just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by
the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying lobbying
to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for
themselves and less for everybody else.
But I'll tell
you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens
capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed,
well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not
interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their
interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the
kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a
system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
You
know what they want? Obedient workers people who are just smart
enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to
passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower
pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the
vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And,
now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking
retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their
criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it.
They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking
place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
— George
Carlin George Denis Patrick Carlin (aka: George Carlin) George
Carlin George Carlin 1937 - 2008 George Carlin George Carlin Comedian
George Carlin George Carlin Memorial
"Death
terrifies people less than the absence of real life. All these dead,
mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a bit of life a thousand times
a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is
not the end of life but the final saturation with absence. Most do not
die, because they are already dead." -Raoul Vaneigem, 'The Revolution of Everyday Life"
Technology
is the sum of mediations between us and the natural world and the sum
of those separations mediating us from each other. It is all the
drudgery and toxicity required to produce and reproduce the state of
hyper-alienation we languish in. It is the texture and the form of
domination at any given stage of hierarchy and commodification.
…
Rousseau zicea ca omul modern e omul divizat impotriva siesi. Omul
schizoid. Omul care traieste prin comparatie. Cand se gandeste la altii,
se gandeste, de fapt, la sine. Iar cand se gandeste la sine, se
gandeste la altii. Altfel spus, cand ma gandesc la altii, ma compar
automat cu ei, adicatelea ma gandesc la mine. Iar cand ma gandesc la
mine, ma gandesc de fapt la felul in care sunt perceput de altii,
adicatelea ma gandesc, de fapt, la ei. Omul modern traieste prin
raportare, reactiv. Omul modern e un caz tragic.
You
cannot conduct war with equals; you cannot have militarism with free
born men; you must have slaves, automatons, machines, obedient
disciplined creatures, who will move, act, shoot and kill at the command
of their superiors. —Emma Goldman
The
soldier must be so trained that he becomes a mere automaton, he must be
so trained that it will destroy his initiative; he must be so trained
that he is turned into a machine. The soldier must be forced into the
military noose; he must be jacked up; he must be ruled by his superiors
with a pistol in his hand. - Major General John F. O'Ryan
"Disobedience,
in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.
It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." ~
Oscar Wilde
Bruce Lee:
How
can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living?
To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite
path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static
thing and then invent methods to reach it.
True observation begins when one sheds set patterns, and true freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond systems.
Knowledge
is fixed in time, whereas, knowing is continual. Knowledge comes from a
source, from accumulation, from a conclusion, while knowing is a
movement.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
"Inainte ca fratii nostri albi sa soseasca aici pentru a ne civiliza, nu aveam inchisori. Din aceasta cauza, nu existau delincventi. Fara inchisoare, nu pot fi delincventi.
Nu aveam lacate sau chei si din cauza asta nu erau hoti. Cand cineva era atat de sarac ca nu isi permitea un cal, o patura sau un cort, in cazul asta primea unul in dar.
Eram prea necivilizati ca sa acordam atentie proprietatii private. Nu cunoasteam banii si pe cale de consecinta, valoarea unui om nu era data de averea sa.
Nu aveam legi scrise, avocati sau politicieni, si din aceasta cauza nu eram in stare sa ne inselam unul pe altul.
Asadar eram chiar intr-o situatie foarte proasta inainte ca omul alb sa soseasca aici, si nu pot sa explic cum de eram in stare sa ne descurcam fara aceste lucruri fundamentale care (asa cum ne zic ei) sunt absolut necesare pentru o societate civilizata".
— John (Fire) Lame Deer.
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents.
We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.
We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth.
We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.
We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.”
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us, it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was for us that the "wild west" began. ~Luther Standing Bear, Chief of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (1868-1939) Land of the Spotted Eagle, 1933
The animal kingdom follows a law of nature for witch man seems to feel exempt. A good example is; A leopard will eat baboons. A baboon though is more than formidable enough to defend itself against a leopard, may attack a leopard pre-emptively once it comes into view, but it will not hunt leopard to extinction or even walk outside its territory to attack one. Another example; You find a bee hive in an apple tree. If you get too close to the hive, the bees may attack. If you pick an apple on the other side of the tree, they most likely won't do anything. Animals don't have the notion of vengeince, they only will attack in self defense or hunger. The bees in my story do not feel they own the tree, only their hive. The baboons don't want to destroy their preditors. They naturally live by a law of limited competition. In order for man to coexist with, instead of destroy nature, we must choose to obey this natural law. Capitalism, authoritarianism, imperialism, and other alienating social ambiance, break this natural law of limited competition.
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." ~ William Hazlit
“The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison. Naturally a prison must have a prison industry. It helps to keep the inmates busy. It takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives. Our prison industry? Consuming the world.”- Daniel Quinn - Ishmael
“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.”
Never let the fear of striking keep you out from playing the game!!!
“Like other businesses, [the media] sell a product to buyers. Their market is advertisers, and the “product” is audiences.” Noam Chomsky - Necessary Illusions
"Tear Gas: The most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labour are identical." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Slim
(aka Matti Valentinpoika Huhta (1880 - 1940) was a humourist, poet, songwriter, hobo and labor activist in the Industrial Workers of the World.
"Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment." - August Spies
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”
“Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” E. Tolle
Ce înseamnă crima de a jefui un lanţ de magazine corporatist faţă de cea de a-l deţine?
Luther Brecht
Today a man on acid realized that all of matter is merely energy condensed into a slow moving vibration, that we are all one, and there is no such thing as death. Life is but a dream.
Here's Tom with the weather.....
-Bill Hicks
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
- Edgar Allan Poe
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach love do not have love - Charles Bukowski
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Nietzsche
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move….
- Joseph Campbell
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity.
- Nietzsche
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato
The most effective thing that psychedelics did was they triggered great ideas in highly creative self-actualized individuals who were very stable and produced new memes, new visions...The people who had the most effect were the people who were most creative and could transmit that energy.—Bruce Eisner, LSD & Aldous Huxley's Island
meme - a contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic
"Every last day on the job, the cameras are telling you that you are not alone, and you have become so lonely that you wish it so. Every day in the school, as you prop your head to stay awake through the single story of domination. Every night in the bar, as you drop your senses for a rush of numbing lubricant to ease this alienation. You sit, and you wait, because inside, the wildness screams. It does not beg, but defies you for life. And there you are, watching, listening, participating in the roles, while I sit here, and writhe in myself for not knowing how to ask. For never knowing how to say clearly, and calmly, so you will understand and not be threatened. But I'll try...
Hello. I am dying, inside and out, and I need wildness. I need freedom. I need resolve to this life long battle for acceptance of myself. I need to know the feeling of an unlit night. I need to adventure. I need to return to the place where I was born. To be attached life at every moment. To be wild and free. I need to come alive! I cannot do it without you. So, put down your sign and raze the buildings to the earth with me...the whole world is waiting."
"Proletarians, brutalized by the dogma of work, listen to the voice of these philosophers, which has been concealed from you with jealous care: A citizen who gives his labor for money degrades himself to the rank of slaves." - Lafargue
"Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or knife on the steps of the palace of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination and without pity" - Lucy Parsons
"When I watch news tapes of the Intifada from Palestine, and see the Arab kids throwing stones at Israeli tanks, I always have fun watching for the kids who are lefthanded, because lefthanders have kind of a natural curveball. [...] Incidentally, I also noticed that Arab kids usually throw in a high arc, whereas the Catholic kids in Northern Ireland throw more of a line drive. Either way is all right with me as long as they're accurate. Kids are great" - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
"Martin Luther King and most other saints have been able to attain a state of total love which makes them want to save their enemy as well as the oppressed. I think, had King lived, he would have reached a higher stage of humanity, that of the revolutionary. The revolutionary has a passionate love for humanity, and a passionate hatred for his enemy." - Roxanne Dunbar
"There are some others who are scared to death of revolution, scared to death off rebellion. You sticklers for convention, you toadies are all curled up inside your revision shells. At the first whiff of rebellion, you become scared and nervous. A revolutionary is a monkey king whose golden rod is might, whose supernatural powers are far reaching and whose magic is omnipotent [...] We are wielding our golden rods, displaying our supernatural powers and using our magic in order to turn the old world upside down, smash it into pieces, create chaos, and make a tremendous mess - and the bigger the better!" - Red Guards
"Fighting street demonstrations, even wildcat strikes; every extra-institutional political action increases tension. But is the purpose of revolutionaries to lessen tensions? [...] At this rate everything illegal will be a provocation. And we would also say the revolution is, roughly speaking, illegal" - Italian anarchists in defense of the Red Brigades, 1974
"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." - Marx
"Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for." - Richard Linklater
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" "You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!" "For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity." "You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live."(Steppenwolf) "I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I’ve got."
"Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell"
"How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence."
"It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard."
"Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action."
"This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best."
"An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led." (Demian)
The bankster scam of charging people interest to borrow their own money is probably the biggest con in the history of the world. It's designed to keep people in debt forever, making us slaves without cast iron shackles, but still slaves. Welcome to the NWO's Global Plantation, slave and enjoy your servitude while we spend YOUR money living like kings. But not to worry, as we will create incidents, manufacture wars and set off false-flags to keep your feeble minds occupied so you don't notice those fingers picking your pocket. And when your kid comes home in a coffin, killed fighting wars to protect our lifestyle, we will make you feel like your a hero, when actually you're just another tricked fool.
"Anarchism ~ is an idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination are necessary. They have to demonstrate, with powerful argument, that that conclusion is correct. If they cannot, then the institutions they defend should be considered illegitimate. How one should react to illegitimate authority depends on circumstances and conditions: there are no formulas." ~ Noam Chomsky
"When you are able to see with no dust of knowledge on the mirror of your soul, when your soul is without any dust of knowledge, when it is just a mirror, it reflects that which is. That is wisdom. That reflecting of that which is, is wisdom." Osho
"Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t. It is your choice — and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads." Osho
"From the state of wonder, there are two paths. One is of questioning — the wrong path — it leads you into more and more knowledge. The other is not of questioning but enjoying. Enjoy the wonder, the wonder that life is, the wonder that existence is, the wonder of the sun and the sunlight and the trees bathed in the golden rays. Experience it. Don´t put a question mark, let it be as it is." Osho
"To me, disobedience is a great revolution. It does not mean saying absolute no in every situation. It simply means deciding whether to do it or not, whether it is beneficial to do it or not. It is taking the responsibility on yourself." Osho
