Javier

“What exists are not separated animals, but an inter-animality.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“We have to respect freedom only when it is intended for freedom, not when it strays, flees itself, and resigns itself. A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.”
― Herbert Marcuse, The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics

“Living rooms are arranged around the TV, but when you take away the box you have the freedom to arrange the room to suit yourself.”
― Benjamin Zephaniah, Teacher's Dead