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“Uno de los voluntarios ingleses llegados a Barcelona para ayudar a la República, el escritor George Orwell, recordará en su obra Homenaje a Cataluña: «Por primera vez en mi vida, me encontraba en una ciudad donde la clase trabajadora llevaba las riendas. Casi todos los edificios, cualquiera que fuera su tamaño, estaban en manos de los trabajadores y cubiertos con banderas rojas o con la bandera roja y negra de los anarquistas; las paredes ostentaban la hoz y el martillo y las iniciales de los partidos revolucionarios; casi todos los templos habían sido destruidos y sus imágenes, quemadas. Por todas partes, cuadrillas de obreros se dedicaban sistemáticamente a demoler iglesias. En toda tienda y en todo café se veían letreros que proclamaban su nueva condición de servicios socializados;”
― Una historia de la Guerra Civil que no va a gustar a nadie
― Una historia de la Guerra Civil que no va a gustar a nadie
“You do not have to be a fine artist to be worth pursuing what you love.”
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“In his important social psychological experiments with students, Asch found out in simple tests that there was a yielding toward an ERRING MAJORITY opinion in more than a third of his test persons, and 75 percent of subjects experimented upon agreed with the majority in varying degrees. In many persons the weight of authority is more important than the quality of the authority.”
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
“We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it. And why on earth would you choose to feel anything but good? We can choose to render a good account of ourselves. If the event must occur, Amor fati (a love of fate) is the response.”
― The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
― The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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