Juan Manuel

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“The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phony and fragile as East Germany did thirty years ago.”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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“happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“So I want to propose an alternative: first, we save globalization by ditching neoliberalism; then we save the planet – and rescue ourselves from turmoil and inequality – by moving beyond capitalism itself.”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

tags: inspirational

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“Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

tags: activism, climate-change, governance, human-rights, ngos, politics, revolution

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