Lindsay

“The bourgeois, however, is tolerant. His love of people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
― Stokely Carmichael

“Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.”
― Thomas Piketty