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“Resistance, not negotiations, is essential for change in conflicts where fundamental issues are at stake. In nearly all cases, resistance must continue to drive dictators out of power. Success is most often determined not by negotiating a settlement but through the wise use of the most appropriate and powerful means of resistance available. It is our contention, to be explored later in more detail, that political defiance, or nonviolent struggle, is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.”
― From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
― From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
“To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
“Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.”
― From Dictatorship to Democracy
― From Dictatorship to Democracy
“Nothing is harder yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
Spoken by Albertus Secundus in "Das Glasperlenspiel”
― The Glass Bead Game
Spoken by Albertus Secundus in "Das Glasperlenspiel”
― The Glass Bead Game
“The aim of far too many teachings these days is to make people "feel good," and even some Buddhist masters are beginning to sound like New Age apostles. Their talks are entirely devoted to validating the manifestation of ego and endorsing the "rightness" of our feelings, neither of which have anything to do with the teachings we find in the pith instructions. So, if you are only concerned about feeling good, you are far better off having a full body massage or listening to some uplifting or life-affirming music than receiving dharma teachings, which were definitely not designed to cheer you up. On the contrary, the dharma was devised specifically to expose your failings and make you feel awful.”
― Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
― Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
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