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“poetry is a way of seeing and that a poet is not so much a person skilled with words as a person who recognizes the poetry that exists all the time all around us.”
― Ani DiFranco, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

“This awareness of awareness is spirituality. As we look inward, feeling out our essential being beyond form and circumstance, realizing that we are, we become conscious of the consciousness that we are. On such an essential level, our very humanity is as relative as personality, age, or occupation.”
― Conor Detwiler, Undividing: Returning to Oneness for the First Time

“In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed. And why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy, is forthwith punished as an "assault upon society," and is branded as "Socialism”
― Karl Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte