Joseph Bianco

“Of all the things people hold dear, none is necessary: not talents, not successes, not accomplishments. All these are imaginary riches for oneself. There is one fortune and joy that God grants equally to every person: one’s own life, created in God, and a heart capable of loving and of rejoicing in love.”
― Sergius Bulgakov, Spiritual Diary

“even the most artful guardians of the present system cannot prevent the awakening of proletarian thought.”
― V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

“Unless we do conscious work on it, the shadow is almost always projected; that is, it is neatly laid on someone or something else so we do not have to take responsibility for it. This is the way things were done five hundred years ago, and most of us are still stuck in this medieval consciousness. The medieval world was based on mutual shadow projection; it thrived on a fortress mentality, armor, walled cities, possession by force, ownership of anything feminine by male prerogative, royal patronage, and city-states in perpetual siege at each other’s gates. Medieval society was almost entirely ruled by patriarchal values that are famous for their one-sidedness. Even the Church took part in shadow politics. Saints like Benedictine monasteries and some of the esoteric societies avoided the projecting game.”
― Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche

“To regard the categories of the bourgeois system as eternal and natural is most typical of bourgeois philosophers.”
― V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats