“«C'è chi colleziona francobolli, o scatole di fiammiferi» mi ha detto una volta. «Tu collezioni rancori».”
― Barney's Version
― Barney's Version
“We can understand this conclusion to be the necessary result of a heterosexualized and masculine observational point of view that takes lesbian sexuality to be a refusal of sexuality per se only because sexuality is presumed to be heterosexual, and the observer, here constructed as the heterosexual male, is clearly being refused.”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn’t a crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn’t a crisis until the anti-apartheid movement turned it into one. In the very same way, if enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one, and the political class will have to respond, both by making resources available and by bending the free market rules that have proven so pliable when elite interests are in peril.”
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.”
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“Love thou thy dream
All base love scorning,
Love thou the wind
And here take warning
That dreams alone can truly be,
For 'tis in dream I come to thee.
Ezra Pound, The Song
trad. Ungaretti:
Ama il tuo sogno
Ama il tuo sogno
Ogni inferiore amore disprezzando,
Il vento ama
Ed accorgiti qui
Che i sogni solo possono veramente essere,
Perciò in sogno a raggiungerti m’avvio.”
―
All base love scorning,
Love thou the wind
And here take warning
That dreams alone can truly be,
For 'tis in dream I come to thee.
Ezra Pound, The Song
trad. Ungaretti:
Ama il tuo sogno
Ama il tuo sogno
Ogni inferiore amore disprezzando,
Il vento ama
Ed accorgiti qui
Che i sogni solo possono veramente essere,
Perciò in sogno a raggiungerti m’avvio.”
―
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