David North > Quotes

“Prior to 1914 socialists had not only expected the breakdown of bourgeois society, but had also warned that the breakdown might assume the form of a devastating European-wide and even global war. Far from welcoming such a war as an essential precondition for socialist revolution, the great Marxists of the pre-1914 era placed the struggle against imperialist militarism at the center of their political work.”
― David North, The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century

“Future generations will struggle to understand how philosophical reactionaries such as Jean-François Lyotard, Richard Rorty and Foucault, working with concepts rummaged from the “basement of bourgeois thought,”27 came to exert such an unwarranted and dangerous influence in the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. I would be very pleased if the lectures and essays in this volume that deal with philosophical issues help future scholars understand the political and social pathology of the postmodernist pandemic.”
― David North, The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century

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― David North, Battlefield Reclaimer

“Fire, Water, Wind, Stone, and Life. These are also called the paths of the Heart, Body, Hands, Feet, and Soul, for reasons that you will come to understand.”
― David North, The Jade Scripture

“The world’s the hardest metal there is. You have to hammer it into the shape you want and often it’ll break your hand just to try, but if you’re the one holding the hammer, you’ve got a simple choice: to hammer or give up. It’s better to let the hammer fall. You never know what might be waiting for you in the steel.”
― David North, Astral Threads

“Energy Gathering, Essence Condensation, Aligned Adept, Primal Spirit, Inspired Aura, Dao Echo, and Divine Essence!”
― David North, The Jade Scripture

“Heart was Fire. Body was Water. Hand was Air. Foot was Stone. Soul was Life.”
― David North, The Jade Scripture

“The Five Paths of the Jade Scripture was a high-level technique, designed to reduce bottlenecks and to ensure a strong and stable base. However, as a trade-off, it required deeper insight than a simpler method. Much deeper insight than the cultivators of the sects in Whitestone City needed for their methods.”
― David North, The Jade Scripture

“jade was a unique path—a combination of stone, wind, water, fire, and life, a blend of energies that was flexible and fortuitous. It was good for healing and defense, with some offensive aspects.”
― David North, The Jade Scripture

“It was like being punched in the face and the stomach at the same time,”
― David North, Moonlight Relic