“Stop trying to imitate what the sages have done. That's past, and though it might have been appropriate at the time, that time is over. The present is alive. Don't use what's dead as a guide to what's alive.”
― Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
― Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
“The long and short of it is that the master makes himself a slave to his slave by needing that domination to define him.”
― Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
― Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“But when a given group is used to having all of the political power, and virtually unlimited privilege to define and name the world, any
power sharing, any obligation to hear the opinions of formerly ‘subject races’ -
who would have once been called uppity niggers and lynched accordingly - can
feel like oppression.”
― Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
power sharing, any obligation to hear the opinions of formerly ‘subject races’ -
who would have once been called uppity niggers and lynched accordingly - can
feel like oppression.”
― Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“To transform the world, to recreate it afresh, men must turn into another path psychologically. Until you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to every one, brotherhood will not come to pass.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels
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