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Jonpatterns’s Quotes

“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

tags: destroy, philosophy, powerful, protect, resourceful

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“I had no words to describe them---these feelings. How does one describe feelings one has never felt before?”
― Stephanie Skeem, The Unsame Ones

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“Instead, I fell back into the routines of family and harvest, which meant on the day I returned to a life of misadventure, I was locked in battle with the constant enemy of my retirement: my roof.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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“There is a tendency, especially today, to reduce all political analysis to an ideological formula, and to judge everything according to this formula. Such a reduction is usually erroneous, even dangerous, when applied to a complicated world. It is, of course, easier to simplify everything in order to make it more comprehensible. But the world does not become simpler when we ideologically simplify. We become simpler – to the point of stupidity.”
― J.R.Nyquist

tags: ideology, simplify

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“Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, because each individual has the right to decide about himself, and for collective decision making in society, all individual has the right to provide their input in it, after that majorities’ rule and minorities’ rights is the key to move forward, otherwise its destruction of society.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

tags: individuality, justice, philosophy, power, prosperity, rights, rule, society

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This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well ...more

Booksounds — 76 members — last activity Nov 16, 2014 02:05PM
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