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“Lakota may have had to endure the omega status at the bottom of the hierarchy for many years, but he was as much a cherished member of the family as any of the others. He always ate, he howled with the group, he played with his packmates, and he helped raise the pups. We have marveled at each individual wolf’s intelligence and been fascinated by observing each unique personality, but the family bond shared among these wolves is what we have admired the most. Caring for the young ones—and for each other—was the central mission in their lives. A wolf is impelled by many individual desires—it wants to breed, hunt, perhaps explore—but its most profound desire is the one that touches us at our very core as human beings: A wolf wants to belong.”
― The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
― The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
“In the summer of 1931,” Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s press chief first for the party and later for the Reich, relates, “the Fuehrer suddenly decided to concentrate systematically on cultivating the influential industrial magnates.”14 What magnates were they? Their identity was a secret which was kept from all but the inner circle around the Leader. The party had to play both sides of the tracks. It had to allow Strasser, Goebbels and the crank Feder to beguile the masses with the cry that the National Socialists were truly “socialists” and against the money barons. On the other hand, money to keep the party going had to be wheedled out of those who had an ample supply of it. Throughout the latter half of 1931, says Dietrich, Hitler “traversed Germany from end to end, holding private interviews with prominent [business] personalities.” So hush-hush were some of these meetings that they had to be held “in some lonely forest glade. Privacy,” explains Dietrich, “was absolutely imperative; the press must have no chance of doing mischief. Success was the consequence.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“They are a tribe, a family, a fierce confederacy. They are also an assembly of individual personalities, private desires and goals and inner lives largely unknown. They are a wolf pack howling.”
― The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
― The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
“Özgürlük, tam ve dolu bir hayata sahip olmaktır; beslenme, giyinme ve barınma gibi ihtiyaçlarınızı uygun ve düzgün biçimde karşılamak için ekonomik güç ve yetenek; ve bundan hemen sonra, aklın kavrayış ve ilgi alanını genişletmek, kişiliği geliştirmek, kimliğimizi duymak ve duyurmak için yeterli ve etkin fırsat sahibi olmak demektir. Açıktır ki, bu anlamda özgürlük, herkes için ancak en büyük bolluğa ulaşıldığı zaman mümkün olur.
Toplumun sınıflara bölünmüş olmasının, insanın insan tarafından sömürülmesinin ve özgürlükten sırf küçük bir azınlığın yararlanmasının tarihi sebebi olan düşük emek üretkenliği artık mevcut değildir.
İşsizliği yok etmek, sosyal güvenlik ve huzuru eksiksiz sağlamak, kültür dünyasına girmeyi herkes için mümkün kılmak, dinlenme ve eğlenme, araştırma ve inceleme, yaratıcı eylem ve çabalar için boş zaman sağlamakla, bugün, insanlık tarihinde ilk defa olarak, sınıfları kaldırmak, dünyayı sömürülmekten kurtarmak ve insan hayatını derinliğine ve genişliğine zenginleştirmek mümkün hale gelmiş bulunuyor.
Bu kolay olmayacak, çabuk olmayacak, fakat sosyalizmle mutlaka gerçekleşecektir.”
― Sosyalizmin Alfabesi
Toplumun sınıflara bölünmüş olmasının, insanın insan tarafından sömürülmesinin ve özgürlükten sırf küçük bir azınlığın yararlanmasının tarihi sebebi olan düşük emek üretkenliği artık mevcut değildir.
İşsizliği yok etmek, sosyal güvenlik ve huzuru eksiksiz sağlamak, kültür dünyasına girmeyi herkes için mümkün kılmak, dinlenme ve eğlenme, araştırma ve inceleme, yaratıcı eylem ve çabalar için boş zaman sağlamakla, bugün, insanlık tarihinde ilk defa olarak, sınıfları kaldırmak, dünyayı sömürülmekten kurtarmak ve insan hayatını derinliğine ve genişliğine zenginleştirmek mümkün hale gelmiş bulunuyor.
Bu kolay olmayacak, çabuk olmayacak, fakat sosyalizmle mutlaka gerçekleşecektir.”
― Sosyalizmin Alfabesi
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