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""In a state, on the other hand, plunder precedes redistribution. It is precisely in order to be able to plunder continuously that redistribution is instituted"." — Apr 03, 2016 08:41AM
""In a state, on the other hand, plunder precedes redistribution. It is precisely in order to be able to plunder continuously that redistribution is instituted"." — Apr 03, 2016 08:41AM
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""Yet nature was everywhere present on city streets—albeit in a state of profound up-heaval—in the form of epidemic diseases, rotting garbage, piles of manure, smoky skies, polluted waterways, and occasional fires.¹" — Jan 19, 2016 03:18PM
""Yet nature was everywhere present on city streets—albeit in a state of profound up-heaval—in the form of epidemic diseases, rotting garbage, piles of manure, smoky skies, polluted waterways, and occasional fires.¹" — Jan 19, 2016 03:18PM
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""Governance states are global as much as they are national"." — Dec 08, 2015 02:22PM
""Governance states are global as much as they are national"." — Dec 08, 2015 02:22PM
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
“Read iron books!
"To signs" (1913)”
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"To signs" (1913)”
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“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”
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A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, "normal" knowledge of murder and lies. Eichmann's great susceptibility to catch words and stock phrases, combined with his incapacity for ordinary speech, made him, of course, an ideal subject for "language rules.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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