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#1

“Do not compare” is the mantra of moral blackmailers.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

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“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

tags: brainwashing, mental-health, propaganda, society, stress, system, unabomber

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#3

“Meanwhile, the question is not whether we should 'lose ourselves' - since all do so in one way or another - but where we lose ourselves: in light or in darkness, in good dreams or in nightmares, in truth or in falsehood.”
― Gai Eaton, Islam and the Destiny of Man

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#4

“love has no end, because the Beloved has no end.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice

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#5

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#6

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#7

“None but God is loved in the existent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover”
― Ibn 'Arabi

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#8

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

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#9

“The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

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#10

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X

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#11

“It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

tags: anti-capitalism, apocalypse, capitalism, capitalist-realism, fiction, imagination, pop-culture, realism

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#12

“Mental illness is primarily an unconscious escape from this design, a form of passive resistance.”
― John Zerzan

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#13

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: nationalism, patriotism, war

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#14

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war

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#15

“No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.”
― Juliusz Słowacki

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#16

“They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.”
― Tupac Shakur

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#17

“People are not more connected, despite the billions in ads from the IT companies. Why call it community? It's just technology. The machines are connected, not the people.”
― John Zerzan

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#18

“The irony is that the liberal individual was snuffed out neither by fascist Brownshirts nor by Stalinist guards. It was killed off when a new form of capital began to instruct youngsters to do that most liberal of things: be yourself! (and be successful at it!)”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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#19

“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows, from this view, that these ecological problems cannot be understood, let alone solved, without a careful understanding of our existing society and the irrationalities that dominate it. To make this point more concrete: economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among many others, lie at the core of the most serious ecological dislocations we face today—apart, to be sure, from those that are produced by natural catastrophes.”
― Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology and Communalism

tags: climate-change, ecology, environment, environmentalism, global-warming, hierarchy, nature, oppression, pollution, social-ecology

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#20

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: love, philosophy

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#21

“The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness - even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn't bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

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“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”
― Lewis Mumford

tags: technology

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#23

“Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: The classic call for human-scale economics which is now more relevant than ever

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#24

“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: abuse-of-power, anti-psychiatrity, anti-stigma, discrimination, judged, label, labeling, labeling-someone, labelling, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-health-system, mental-illness, perspective, sanity, sickness, society

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