Unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality
I admire its purity. A survivor… unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.
— Ash, “Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Me
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In our work and planning and discussions, our main principle is that separation between peoples, war between peoples, is not a solution for any of the problems that divide them […] I, for one, am full of optimism, despite the darkening sky and the seemingly hopeless situation, for the time being, that encloses us all.
—Edward Said
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No one, of course, is conscious of his own ideology, any more than he can smell his own breath.
—Joan Robinson
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And your way, is it really your way? […] What, moreover, can you call your own? The house you live in, the food you swallow, the clothes you wear — you neither built the house nor raised the food nor made the clothes. […] The same goes for your ideas. You moved into them ready-made.
—Henry Miller
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Nothing annoys forces of authority more than trying to bow out of the disciplinary game entirely and saying that we could just do things on our own. Direct action is a matter of acting as if you were already free.
—David Graeber
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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
—Hannah Arendt
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For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
—Luke 12:2 (King James Bible)
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…what I do know is that the world is not governed by good sense, but by multinationals.
—Eva Joly
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Recent Posts
- Suffragette Surveillance March 12, 2014
- Are Animals Conscious? I Dunno—Are We? March 8, 2014
- The United States condemns, blah, blah… March 3, 2014
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