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  • #1
    Guy Debord
    “Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
    Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

  • #2
    Guy Debord
    “Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”
    Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

  • #3
    Guy Debord
    “The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.”
    Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

  • #4
    Guy Debord
    “In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. ”
    Guy Debord

  • #6
    Guy Debord
    “The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”
    Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

  • #7
    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    Karl Marx

  • #8
    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

  • #9
    Karl Marx
    Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
    Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

  • #10
    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    Rosa Luxemburg

  • #11
    Rosa Luxemburg
    “What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.”
    Rosa Luxemburg

  • #12
    Rosa Luxemburg
    “The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
    Rosa Luxemburg, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

  • #13
    Amadeo Bordiga
    “The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.”
    Amadeo Bordiga

  • #14
    Amadeo Bordiga
    “The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revo­lution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”
    Amadeo Bordiga

  • #15
    Amadeo Bordiga
    “To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.”
    Amadeo Bordiga

  • #16
    Immanuel Kant
    “Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
    Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

  • #17
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #18
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
    W.E.B. Du Bois

  • #19
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    W.E.B. DuBois

  • #20
    Raoul Vaneigem
    “People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth”
    Raoul Vaneigem

  • #21
    Raoul Vaneigem
    “The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.”
    Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life

  • #22
    Fredy Perlman
    “The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery”
    Fredy Perlman

  • #23
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #24
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    Tagore

  • #25
    Friedrich Engels
    “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
    Friedrich Engels Karl Marx

  • #26
    Plutarch
    “When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”
    Plutarch, In Consolation to His Wife
    tags: grief

  • #27
    W.G. Sebald
    “It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.”
    W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
    tags: time

  • #28
    W.G. Sebald
    “In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them, just like a photographic print left in the developing bath too long.”
    W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

  • #29
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    Joseph Conrad, Chance

  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #31
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest



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