"So labor unions have by now been virtually wiped out in the United States, in part by a huge amount of business propaganda, running from cinema to almost everything, and through a lot of other techniques as well. But the whole process took a long time - I’m old enough to remember what the working class culture was like in the United States: there was still a high level of it when I was growing up in the late 1930s. It took a long time to beat it out of workers’ heads and turn them into passive tools; it took a long time to make people accept that this type of exploitation is the only alternative, so they’d better just forget about their rights and say, “Okay, I’m degraded."

Noam Chomsky (via socialuprooting)

(Source: noam-chomsky, via inside-illusion)

@1 month ago with 152 notes
#life #US #America #work #culture #patterns #people #author #writer 

"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am."

Eckhart Tolle (via nirvikalpa)

(Source: kindlequotes, via americansatori)

@1 month ago with 342 notes
#quote #I #you #text #wisdom #words #life #now #writer #consciousness 
vintageanchor: “A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap.  A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.  A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane.  And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.” –Mark Twain

vintageanchor:

“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap.  A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.  A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane.  And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”

–Mark Twain

@7 months ago with 1966 notes
#twain #quote #text #picture #image #man #writer #author #humor #writing #photo #funny 

"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed."

Friedrich Nietzsche (via kari-shma)

(Source: kari-shma, via pdl2h)

@11 months ago with 8586 notes
#quote #text #words #windom #life #people #truth #illusion #writer #author 

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

Maya Angelou (via kari-shma)

(Source: kari-shma)

@1 year ago with 3227 notes
#quote #text #words #life #poet #poetry #writer 

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” - Gore Vidal"

@3 years ago
#Gore Vidal #quote #activist #writer #author #funny #joke #humor 

"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy."

Kahlil Gibran (via reluctantbuddha)
@3 years ago with 45 notes
#kahlil bibran #poetry #quote #sorrow #joy #heart #wisdom #writer 

"The greatest gift you can give the world is your own growth into the full consciousness of your own possibilities - and ultimately the evolutionary possibilities of the whole human species."

Alan Watts (via nirvikalpa)

(Source: bridgettelizabeth, via nirvikalpa)

@1 month ago with 194 notes
#quote #text #words #life #world #writer #people 

"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas."

Howard Zinn, 2005 (via gutenachtjane)

(via progressivehumanity)

@5 months ago with 15 notes
#activism #activist #author #consumerism #historian #information #question #thought #writer #facts #consciousness #society #ideas 

"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of “No answer.” It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, “Peace, child; you don’t understand.” Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask — half our great theological and metaphysical problems — are like that."

C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

This is fantastic. Also relevant that this is a book in which he reflects on the death of his wife… the questions Lewis had for God weren’t minor ones

via solideogloriaa

(via davereed)

(via hilker)

@8 months ago with 149 notes
#quote #text #questions #God #prayers #writer #wisdom #life 

"The power of imagination makes us infinite"

_John Muir 
@11 months ago with 3 notes
#quote #text #life #author #writer #environment #environmentalism #earth #American 

"It’s a dangerous business going out your front door."

J. R. R. Tolkien (via homecoming)
@2 years ago with 52 notes
#quote #business #danger #artist #writer 

John Pillager

The films and journalism of John Pillager

http://www.johnpilger.com/

‘THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY’ WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY AT THE 2008 ONE WORLD AWARDS

@3 years ago
#writer #films #links #journalism #author 
"So labor unions have by now been virtually wiped out in the United States, in part by a huge amount of business propaganda, running from cinema to almost everything, and through a lot of other techniques as well. But the whole process took a long time - I’m old enough to remember what the working class culture was like in the United States: there was still a high level of it when I was growing up in the late 1930s. It took a long time to beat it out of workers’ heads and turn them into passive tools; it took a long time to make people accept that this type of exploitation is the only alternative, so they’d better just forget about their rights and say, “Okay, I’m degraded."
Noam Chomsky (via socialuprooting)

(Source: noam-chomsky, via inside-illusion)

1 month ago
#life #US #America #work #culture #patterns #people #author #writer 
"The greatest gift you can give the world is your own growth into the full consciousness of your own possibilities - and ultimately the evolutionary possibilities of the whole human species."
Alan Watts (via nirvikalpa)

(Source: bridgettelizabeth, via nirvikalpa)

1 month ago
#quote #text #words #life #world #writer #people 
"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am."
Eckhart Tolle (via nirvikalpa)

(Source: kindlequotes, via americansatori)

1 month ago
#quote #I #you #text #wisdom #words #life #now #writer #consciousness 
"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas."
Howard Zinn, 2005 (via gutenachtjane)

(via progressivehumanity)

5 months ago
#activism #activist #author #consumerism #historian #information #question #thought #writer #facts #consciousness #society #ideas 
vintageanchor: “A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap.  A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.  A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane.  And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.” –Mark Twain
7 months ago
#twain #quote #text #picture #image #man #writer #author #humor #writing #photo #funny 
"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of “No answer.” It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, “Peace, child; you don’t understand.” Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask — half our great theological and metaphysical problems — are like that."

C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

This is fantastic. Also relevant that this is a book in which he reflects on the death of his wife… the questions Lewis had for God weren’t minor ones

via solideogloriaa

(via davereed)

(via hilker)

8 months ago
#quote #text #questions #God #prayers #writer #wisdom #life 
"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed."
Friedrich Nietzsche (via kari-shma)

(Source: kari-shma, via pdl2h)

11 months ago
#quote #text #words #windom #life #people #truth #illusion #writer #author 
"The power of imagination makes us infinite"
_John Muir 
11 months ago
#quote #text #life #author #writer #environment #environmentalism #earth #American 
"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
Maya Angelou (via kari-shma)

(Source: kari-shma)

1 year ago
#quote #text #words #life #poet #poetry #writer 
"It’s a dangerous business going out your front door."
J. R. R. Tolkien (via homecoming)
2 years ago
#quote #business #danger #artist #writer 
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” - Gore Vidal"
3 years ago
#Gore Vidal #quote #activist #writer #author #funny #joke #humor 
John Pillager

The films and journalism of John Pillager

http://www.johnpilger.com/

‘THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY’ WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY AT THE 2008 ONE WORLD AWARDS

3 years ago
#writer #films #links #journalism #author 
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy."
Kahlil Gibran (via reluctantbuddha)
3 years ago
#kahlil bibran #poetry #quote #sorrow #joy #heart #wisdom #writer