Quote of the Week: Aaron Turner

"These eyes and [this] tower have seeped into our veins."

Aaron Turner, "Wills Dissolve", Panopticon,  2004.

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Quote of the Week: Immanuel Kant

"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

—Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, 1788.

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Quote of the Week: Oscar Wilde

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."

—Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism,  1891.

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"... we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace." —W. M. Hicks.

Quote of the Week: Henry David Thoreau

“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.”

—Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government, 1849

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Quote of the Week: Jean Baudrillard

"The end of history is, alas, also the end of the dustbins of history. There are no longer any dustbins for disposing of old ideologies, old regimes, old values ... Conclusion: if there are no more dustbins of history, this is because History itself has become a dustbin. It has become its own dustbin, just as the planet itself is becoming its own dustbin."

—Jean Baudrillard,  Illusion of the End, 1992.

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Quote of the Week: Chris Cornell

"I don't mind stealing bread from the mouth of decadence,
But I can't feed on the powerless when my cup's already over-filled."

"Hunger Strike", Temple of the Dog, 1991.

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Quote of the Week: Malcolm X

"The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."Malcolm X, Speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, December 13, 1964———————————————————————————————————————— "... we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace." —W. M. Hicks.

Quote of the Week: Michel Foucault.

"I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school ... [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him—and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys."

Michel Foucault, 1983.

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Quote of the Week: Jürgen Habermas

"The state apparatus becomes dependent on the media-steered subsystem of the economy; this forces it to reorganise and leads, among other things, to assimilation of power to the structure of a steering medium: power becomes assimilated to money."

Theory of Communicative Action , Volume Two, 1987.

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Quote of the Week: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying this is mine, and found people naïve enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754 

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