Quotes (Page 8) (random order)https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/order/random/page/8/output/atom/2021-07-28T10:57:24+02:00#1949Suzanne E. Frankshttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1949/2013-07-30T02:40:04+02:00<blockquote>Your heart breaks at least three or four times a month when you are caring for your parents, if you are doing it right.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Suzanne E. Franks/">Suzanne E. Franks</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://scientopia.org/blogs/thusspakezuska/2013/01/29/how-sentiment-and-respect-can-leave-your-parents-vulnerable/">"How Sentiment and Respect Can Leave Your Parents Vulnerable"</a></div></div></blockquote>#1288C.S. Lewishttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1288/2013-02-24T21:44:33+01:00<blockquote>Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/C.S. Lewis/">C.S. Lewis</a></div></div></blockquote>#3145Oliver Burkemanhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3145/2015-12-06T06:08:00+01:00<blockquote>When daily life requires turning a blind eye to the falsity of countless things we’re told, it weakens the power of language to sort truth from fiction.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Oliver Burkeman/">Oliver Burkeman</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/04/column-change-life-corporate-lies-oliver-burkeman">http://www.theguardian.co ... rate-lies-oliver-burkeman</a></div></div></blockquote>#1742Paul Lutushttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1742/2013-05-03T06:24:51+02:00<blockquote>Most Americans are educated in name only — we do not have the comprehension of ideas that would be required to think for ourselves, and we also are not trained or encouraged to do this. Not only are we unable to think creatively, we don't even possess this expectation, and this is not an accident.
There are many vested interests that prefer us as we are — in government, religion and in corporate America. Think how much more trouble we would be if we could think for ourselves. Not only would we be much more difficult to govern (to the degree that politicians would have to explain their actions), we would be much more alert to the public stupidity that so often surrounds us.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Paul Lutus/">Paul Lutus</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/symbols.html">How we confuse symbols and things</a></div></div></blockquote>#1272Marcus Aureliushttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1272/2013-02-24T21:16:32+01:00<blockquote>You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to you.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Marcus Aurelius/">Marcus Aurelius</a></div></div></blockquote>#1207Leo Tolstoyhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1207/2013-02-19T10:18:19+01:00<blockquote>The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Leo Tolstoy/">Leo Tolstoy</a></div></div></blockquote>#4753?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/4753/2019-09-10T00:42:31+02:00<blockquote>Defining efforts to slow/prevent/reverse anthropogenic climate change as "political crusades" has been one of the great propaganda victories of the oligarchs who are raping and pillaging the planet to line their pockets now and will be long dead by the time industrialized human society has come under <em>undeniable</em> threat as a consequence of their actions.
Fuck that. Entities willfully contributing to climate change should be censured and marginalized with extreme prejudice.<div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20923119">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20923119</a></div></div></blockquote>#879?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/879/2012-08-08T06:23:23+02:00<blockquote>Punishing governement and large corporations is generally meaningless. We have to pierce the veil and go after individuals within them... fine or even imprison them personally.<div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3033289&cid=40913885">http://it.slashdot.org/co ... ?sid=3033289&cid=40913885</a></div></div></blockquote>#4796Edmund Burkehttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/4796/2019-09-14T15:18:47+02:00<blockquote>No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united Cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Edmund Burke/">Edmund Burke</a></div><div title=Source>"Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents"</div></div></blockquote>#1497Keith Hebdenhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1497/2013-03-29T17:26:59+01:00<blockquote>Being compassionate is an act of resistance; it is different from being caring, or passive. Compassion, literally meaning ‘to suffer with’, is rooted in our loving desire to be alongside one another in our common struggle for a better spiritual and social reality. Compassion is an act of resistance because the compassionate cannot rest until all suffering has ended. Compassion is the recognition that none of us are free until we are all free.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Keith Hebden/">Keith Hebden</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://www.christian-alternative.com/books/seeking-justice-radical-compassion-jesus">"Seeking Justice - The Radical Compassion of Jesus"</a>, <a class="wrap" href="http://www.jesusradicals.com/sources-of-violence/">"Sources of Violence" (excerpt)</a></div></div></blockquote>#2393White Rosehttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2393/2014-01-19T17:32:17+01:00<blockquote>Hitler himself wrote in an early edition of “his” book – a book that is written in the most awful German I have ever read, despite which the nation of poets and thinkers have elevated it to the status of the Bible: “You would not believe how one must deceive a nation in order to rule it.” If this cancerous growth in the German nation was not too noticeable in the early phases, then that is because there were enough forces for good at work to try to slow its growth. But as it grew larger and larger and finally ascended to power by means of one last vulgar corruption, the abscess erupted and defiled the whole body.
This caused the majority of its previous opponents to hide themselves. German intelligentsia took refuge in holes in the cellar like Solanaceae, hiding from light and the sun, gradually suffocating. And now we are facing the end. Now it is a question of mutually coming to our senses, of mutually keeping one another informed. We must always keep these things in mind and allow ourselves no rest until the last man is convinced of the utmost necessity of his battle against this system. If a wave of insurrection surges through the country, if “it is in the air,” if many join us, then this system can be cast aside with one last mighty effort. An end with terror is always better than terror without end.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/White Rose/">White Rose</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://white-rose-studies.org/Leaflet_2.html">Leaflet #2 of the White Rose</a></div></div></blockquote>#6752David Graeberhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/6752/2021-07-28T10:57:24+02:00<blockquote>What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/David Graeber/">David Graeber</a></div><div title=Source>"The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy"</div></div></blockquote>#6714?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/6714/2021-07-15T21:06:24+02:00<blockquote>Founders, investors, successful business owners and CEOs are more likely to show sociopathic behaviour than the average person next door.
They are the least competent group to be given power to shape any societal rules and contracts or to define how the humanity should look like. <div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845761">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845761</a></div></div></blockquote>God Bless the GrassMalvina Reynoldshttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/4578/2019-07-02T08:33:11+02:00<blockquote>God bless the grass that grows thru the crack
They roll the concrete over it to try and keep it back
The concrete gets tired of what it has to do
It breaks and it buckles and the grass grows thru
And God bless the grass
God bless the truth that fights toward the sun
They roll the lies over it and think that it is done
It moves through the ground and reaches for the air
And after a while it is growing everywhere
And God bless the grass
God bless the grass that grows through cement
It's green and it's tender and it's easily bent
But after a while it lifts up its head
For the grass is living and the stone is dead
And God bless the grass
God bless the grass that's gentle and low
Its roots they are deep and its will is to grow
And God bless the truth, the friend of the poor
And the wild grass growing at the poor man's door
And God bless the grass<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Malvina Reynolds/">Malvina Reynolds</a></div></div></blockquote>#760Rabbi J. Gordonhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/760/2012-07-30T10:25:12+02:00<blockquote>Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Rabbi J. Gordon/">Rabbi J. Gordon</a></div></div></blockquote>#6747David Graeberhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/6747/2021-07-28T10:51:11+02:00<blockquote>the hidden reality of human life is the fact that the world doesn’t just happen. It isn’t a natural fact, even though we tend to treat it as if it is—it exists because we all collectively produce it.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/David Graeber/">David Graeber</a></div><div title=Source>"The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy"</div></div></blockquote>#3679?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3679/2017-07-17T04:19:09+02:00<blockquote>See, this is the thing that everyone knows and no one says. You follow the drugs, you get a drug case. You start following the money, you don't know where you're going. That's why they don't want wiretaps or wired C.I.s or anything else they can't control. Because once that tape starts rolling, who the hell knows what's going to be said?<div class=source><div title=Source>"The Wire"</div></div></blockquote>#1619?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1619/2013-04-08T23:07:36+02:00<blockquote>Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.<div class=source><div title=Source>Book of Wisdom, 6:12</div></div></blockquote>#2179Suzanne E. Frankshttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2179/2013-11-20T17:08:37+01:00<blockquote>I have no problem with leaning in. Really I don't. If you are going to puke on someone's shoes, you had best lean in a little, lest the spatter hit your own glorious footwear. [..] But if it's real, substantive change we're after, then we'd best be talking about <em>organizing</em> and <em>collective action</em>.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Suzanne E. Franks/">Suzanne E. Franks</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://scientopia.org/blogs/thusspakezuska/2013/09/13/you-lean-in-to-puke-you-organize-for-change/">http://scientopia.org/blo ... -you-organize-for-change/</a></div></div></blockquote>#3822?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3822/2017-12-11T11:54:30+01:00<blockquote>War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world.
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. <div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judnazi.asp#common">Judgement of the International Military Tribunal for Germany</a></div></div></blockquote>#6688?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/6688/2021-06-26T15:56:34+02:00<blockquote>Every day it feels like more producers truly believe they're the next Bach of beat making and think their "Masterpiece" deserves none other than the best. News flash, they wrote three other beats that same day that all sound the same.<div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/comments/o7uxf2/as_a_rapper_with_years_of_collaboration/">https://www.reddit.com/r/ ... h_years_of_collaboration/</a></div></div></blockquote>#1277Albert Hofmannhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1277/2013-02-24T21:21:29+01:00<blockquote>I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Albert Hofmann/">Albert Hofmann</a></div></div></blockquote>#2221Vladimir Nabokovhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2221/2013-11-30T07:25:26+01:00<blockquote>The isms go; the ist dies; art remains.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Vladimir Nabokov/">Vladimir Nabokov</a></div></div></blockquote>#2653John Philpot Curranhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2653/2014-07-05T20:44:38+02:00<blockquote>The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/John Philpot Curran/">John Philpot Curran</a></div></div></blockquote>#3426John Lennonhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3426/2016-06-22T03:54:59+02:00<blockquote>When it gets down to having to use violence, then you're playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/John Lennon/">John Lennon</a></div></div></blockquote>#2043Sir Thomas Morehttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2043/2013-08-15T16:17:27+02:00<blockquote>I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill-acquired, and then, that they may engage the poor to toil and labour for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they please; and if they can but prevail to get these contrivances established by the show of public authority, which is considered as the representative of the whole people, then they are accounted laws.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Sir Thomas More/">Sir Thomas More</a></div><div title=Source>"Utopia" (1517)</div></div></blockquote>#6234Jeffrey Paulhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/6234/2020-05-01T06:48:53+02:00<blockquote>Centralized communications are, on a long enough timescale, an existential threat to a free society.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Jeffrey Paul/">Jeffrey Paul</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/">https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/</a></div></div></blockquote>#1331Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitzhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1331/2013-02-24T23:22:04+01:00<blockquote>Man wants to achieve greatness overnight, and he wants to sleep well that night too.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz/">Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz</a></div></div></blockquote>#1000Martin Luther King, Jr.https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1000/2013-01-21T20:41:32+01:00<blockquote>When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Martin Luther King, Jr./">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a></div></div></blockquote>#1416Ansel Adamshttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1416/2013-03-25T09:19:12+01:00<blockquote>We don't make a photograph just with a camera; we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Ansel Adams/">Ansel Adams</a></div></div></blockquote>#649Bill Hickshttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/649/2012-07-26T15:18:01+02:00<blockquote>We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children! They're killing children! How many children were at Waco? They're killing children!" What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your fucking love-list? Fuck your children, if that's the way you think then fuck you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Bill Hicks/">Bill Hicks</a></div></div></blockquote>#2016Lillian Garrett-Groaghttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2016/2013-08-09T10:15:40+02:00<blockquote>It is possibly the most spectacular moment of resistance that I can think of in the 20th Century... The fact that five little kids, in the mouth of the wolf, where it really counted, had the tremendous courage to do what they did, is spectacular to me. I know that the world is better for them having been there, but I don't know why.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Lillian Garrett-Groag/">Lillian Garrett-Groag</a></div></div></blockquote>#1432C.S. Lewishttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1432/2013-03-25T09:40:26+01:00<blockquote>Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/C.S. Lewis/">C.S. Lewis</a></div></div></blockquote>#3083Bernie Sandershttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3083/2015-10-29T10:25:23+01:00<blockquote>They told white workers who were earning pennies an hour, "Hey, you think you’re in trouble, but you’re better off than the blacks who can’t drink at a water fountain or go to your school." And they told straight people, "You’re better off than those gay people", right? And they pitted men against women. They’re always playing one group against another. Rich got richer — everybody else was fighting each other. Our job is to build a nation in which we all stand together, as one people.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Bernie Sanders/">Bernie Sanders</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvvODhy1xM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvvODhy1xM</a></div></div></blockquote>#1636George Orwellhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1636/2013-04-08T23:14:53+02:00<blockquote>Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/George Orwell/">George Orwell</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw">"Why I Write" (1946)</a></div></div></blockquote>#3850?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3850/2018-02-19T20:55:43+01:00<blockquote>That's why McDonalds works, and software development is a perpetual disaster - McDonalds understand that to manage even something as simple as flipping burgers, you need to have done it yourself first!
It's the arrogance of business school management that's responsible for a great deal of turmoil across many areas of everyday life. Just imagine going to school for something that's not difficult, to 'learn' how to boss people around. For good pay!
Isn't that the dream of every non-creative, lazy, half-wit you never want managing anybody ever? Yes... yes it is...<div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16415032">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16415032</a></div></div></blockquote>#4369?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/4369/2019-03-13T05:41:03+01:00<blockquote>Even if it were possible to design a provably correct, impossible to tamper with, anonymous electronic voting system (which seems unlikely to me) it still should NOT be used. Why?
Everyone understands paper in ballot boxes, and how they can be cheated, what to look for. Everyone can assess an argument as to whether this happened based on the evidence presented.
Basically nobody would understand what to even look for in cheating the electronic system. It would be totally my expert says your expert is wrong and so it is/isn't fraud. Having even the possibility of that argument for electoral fraud is completely insane.
It doesn't just have to be fair, it has to be seen to be fair. Really it does. We need to have reason to have faith in our democratic processes most especially when the people you want to win, don't and the result surprises you.
The sooner we get to "Any electronic voting must be used to mark a standard paper ballot which becomes the entire source of truth." The better. Everything else in electronic voting is dangerous, sinister and flat out evil. Oppose it. Loudly. At every opportunity. Especially if you're known as someone who understands computers on some level. <div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374789">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374789</a></div></div></blockquote>#3835?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3835/2018-01-02T01:17:28+01:00<blockquote>The real isolation comes from the need to transcribe every external perception into a shallow internal one before acknowledging it.<div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r2/index.html">http://www.datapacrat.com ... ciprocality/r2/index.html</a></div></div></blockquote>#2866Erich Frommhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2866/2015-03-10T11:49:57+01:00<blockquote>Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult... Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Erich Fromm/">Erich Fromm</a></div></div></blockquote>#3023Noam Chomskyhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3023/2015-08-18T17:43:21+02:00<blockquote>It’s not that they’re bad people. It reveals an institutional pathology. There is an institutional structure that says that if you’re the CEO of a major corporation, which incidentally means that you have enormous influence in the political system, then you simply don’t care about what happens to the world in the next generation, including your own grandchildren. What you care about is profits tomorrow. It’s an institutional imperative.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Noam Chomsky/">Noam Chomsky</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://isreview.org/issue/97/institutional-imperatives-and-neoliberal-madness">http://isreview.org/issue ... es-and-neoliberal-madness</a></div></div></blockquote>#1273Henry David Thoreauhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1273/2013-02-24T21:16:58+01:00<blockquote>Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Henry David Thoreau/">Henry David Thoreau</a></div></div></blockquote>#2251?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/2251/2013-12-07T17:48:53+01:00<blockquote>I feel like the inability to focus for long periods of time is holding back progress in many areas. If we can't even stay away from email for a few days, how can we clear our minds of conventional thinking?<div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864907">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864907</a></div></div></blockquote>#5568?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/5568/2020-01-04T19:07:01+01:00<blockquote>We are humans, living in a human society, with human values and purposes, and the associated processes and conflicts, at every point of social scale. Furthermore, we are a process, with a past and an unguessable future, at every point of social scale.
It is patently an act of incredible destruction to increasingly, globally and inescapably “control” important domains of human lives, relationships and society with extremely superficial centralized mathematical models of what humanity is.
There will be unintended consequences. They will be horrifying, and we may not even grasp what we've lost. <div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21954641">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21954641</a></div></div></blockquote>#4685?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/4685/2019-08-30T09:36:42+02:00<blockquote>I think the argument is clear. A few people in the West have found ways to abuse the political system in a few marginal ways and get away with it for limited periods until independent journalism, public opinion and the courts stop them.
However they get away with it for a while. Therefore it's ok to have an entire political system in China, constructed entirely out of the abuse or elimination of the rights of it's people, with no way to challenge their leaders or hold them accountable.
I make no claims for the validity of the argument. <div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20836554">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20836554</a></div></div></blockquote>#946Gustav Landauerhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/946/2012-12-01T11:49:35+01:00<blockquote>You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Gustav Landauer/">Gustav Landauer</a></div></div></blockquote>#3844Dong Nguyenhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3844/2018-01-08T04:02:47+01:00<blockquote>Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed. But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it's best to take down Flappy Bird.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Dong Nguyen/">Dong Nguyen</a></div></div></blockquote>#1671Ralph Waldo Emersonhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1671/2013-04-16T18:29:17+02:00<blockquote>The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Ralph Waldo Emerson/">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a></div></div></blockquote>#1743Paul Lutushttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1743/2013-05-03T06:28:35+02:00<blockquote>Most of us are unable to sort out reality — we can't distinguish between a thing and a symbol for that thing. This springs from several causes. One cause is that we are isolated from the natural world, where the distinction between a thing and a symbol is more obvious. Another cause is our educational system, which simply reflects the intellectual laziness of the society in which it is embedded. A third cause is resistance on the part of vested interests — if we could think creatively, we would be difficult to govern, and advertisers would have to appeal to reason instead of emotion.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Paul Lutus/">Paul Lutus</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/symbols.html">How we confuse symbols and things</a></div></div></blockquote>#1066Woody Guthriehttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1066/2013-02-11T21:51:12+01:00<blockquote>I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Woody Guthrie/">Woody Guthrie</a></div></div></blockquote>#3333Lord Actonhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3333/2016-05-18T03:40:25+02:00<blockquote>I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility [that is, the later judgment of historians] has to make up for the want of legal responsibility [that is, legal consequences during the rulers' lifetimes]. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which . . . the end learns to justify the means. You would hang a man of no position, . . . but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greater names coupled with the greater crimes. You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them, higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science....<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/author/Lord Acton/">Lord Acton</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165acton.html">http://history.hanover.ed ... es/excerpts/165acton.html</a></div></div></blockquote>