Teodora Grădinariu

“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.”
― James Connolly

“Art and sex occupy similar positions under capitalism. The commodification of each, while rampant, is also rifle with anxiety and subject to questions of ethics, purity, and meaning. This is because we are told are and sex skiffle be commodified. Both are seemingly sacred forms of human expression, and we are taught to keep them close to ourselves, safe from capitals voracious appetite.”
― Sophia Giovannitti, Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
― James Connolly

“The part I liked the least; it was the first time I realised how much more a strangers affection bothers me than their lust. Affection is more particular and precious than sex.”
― Sophia Giovannitti, Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex