We like to blame life for the problems we make,We threaten to change, but it’s always a fake;We bitch and moan that everything’s wrong,Then we get right back to getting along.
To get what you want, get what you need. When the fire is hot enough, there is no smoke. No fear when in your place. Do not allow anger to poison you. Each person is his own judge. It is not good for...
To a very great extent human history has been the story of the unequal accumulation of harvested wealth, shifting from one centre of power to another, while always expanding the four great inequalitie...
This is what the human story is, not the emperors and the generals and their wars, but the nameless actions of people who are never written down, the good they do for others passed on like a blessing,...
The past is always gone, Wahram said. Whether the place is still there or not.
That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers...
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century’s war dead.
He says, We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. Try to be...
Criminally negligent narcissists, child endangerers, child abusers, religious maniacs, and kleptoparasites, meaning they stole from their own descendants. These things happen.
But the problem of utopia, of collective meaning, is to find an individual meaning. —Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia
But it can be controlled by labor just as well as by capital. Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few. There is no...
An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
Always they argued. Neither conceded anything, no compromises were made, nothing was ever accomplished. They argued using the same words to mean different things, and scarcely even spoke to one anothe...
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford
Tiny parasites inside you, big parasites outside you, people living from your work even though they stay on the other side of the world, making you do it by the force of laws and guns. Laws like mistl...
Thus it went as she made her way around the biomes of Ring B. Always she found that her mother the great engineer had made some crucial intervention, finding solutions to problems that had stymied the...
They were somewhere near Chelyabinsk 56, someone said. You don’t want to go there, a Russian added. One of Stalin’s biggest messes.
They [women] looked at you-they looked at everything-with a most piercing glance. They were the most curious animals of all, even more than their sisters fox and cat.
The world is like a tree, from every leaf you can work back to the roots.