My personal quote thingy cope and seeth
BC Era
"Asses would rather have refuse than gold."
Heraclitus, 540-480 BCE
"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult."
"Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever."
Gaius Marius, 157-86 BC
"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, 138-78 BC
"Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious."
Marcus Licinius Crassus, 115-53 BC
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18th Century
"In order to know virtue we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man."
Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814
"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
Denis Diderot, 1713-1784
"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy."
"Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other."
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
"Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
19th Century
"A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. So far as it is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about it, whether we consider it from the point of view that by its properties it is capable of satisfying human wants, or from the point that those properties are the product of human labour. It is as clear as noon-day, that man, by his industry, changes the forms of the materials furnished by Nature, in such a way as to make them useful to him. The form of wood, for instance, is altered, by making a table out of it. Yet, for all that, the table continues to be that common, every-day thing, wood. But, so soon as it steps forth as a commodity, it is changed into something transcendent. It not only stands with its feet on the ground, but, in relation to all other commodities, it stands on its head, and evolves out of its wooden brain grotesque ideas, far more wonderful than “table-turning” ever was."
Karl Marx, 1818-1883
"A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men’s labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour; because the relation of the producers to the sum total of their own labour is presented to them as a social relation, existing not between themselves, but between the products of their labour. This is the reason why the products of labour become commodities, social things whose qualities are at the same time perceptible and imperceptible by the senses. In the same way the light from an object is perceived by us not as the subjective excitation of our optic nerve, but as the objective form of something outside the eye itself. But, in the act of seeing, there is at all events, an actual passage of light from one thing to another, from the external object to the eye."
"A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism."
Georges Bataille, 1897-1962
"The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth."
"7. Nihilism is the rejection of the principles of civilisation as such. Civilisation is the conscious culture of human reason, i.e. science and morals."
Leo Strauss, 1899-1973
20th Century
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Communism knows no monster. ... Should abuse occur, the perpetrator would not be ostracized by his fellow human beings. They would not reject the social violator in order to reassure themselves of their humanity by comparing themselves to a non-human human, to a monster. They would be able to recognize what they have in common with him, and to realize that they could have done what he did. And this, we believe, is a much better way of reducing abuse to its lowest possible minimum than any search for normality."
Gilles Duave, 1947-
"Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon."
"The present communist movement needs to assimilate its past, to fully grasp what really happened in 1917-21 and how today differs from yesterday. Communist revolution will not promote a further development of production: capital has already accomplished this in a large number of countries. The transitional phase will consist of the immediate communisation of society, which includes armed insurrection: the State's military might cannot be underestimated. Besides, the working class has become such a potential social force that it is vital for capitalism to control it: this is the job of the unions and workers' parties, so one must prepare to confront them."
"Communism is not an ideal to be realised: it already exists, not as alternative lifestyles, autonomous zones or counter-communities that would grow within this society and ultimately change it into another one, but as an effort, a task to prepare for. It is the movement which tries to abolish the conditions of life determined by wage-labour, and it will abolish them only by revolution."
"We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much"
Gilles Delueze, 1925-1995
"Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering."
Roland Barthes, 1915-1980
"The author enters into his own death, writing begins."
"There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you"
"Revolution is always something that is being realised, that is in the process of becoming. A Past is always 'venerable'; tampering with it is 'sacrilegious'; to neglect it is 'inhuman'. the bourgeois World is but an agglomeration of private Property-owners, isolated from each other, without true community."
Alexandre Kojève, 1902-1968
"We joined hands as comrades to overthrow the emperor system. By nature human beings should be equal. And yet human beings who are equal by nature have been made unequal because of the presence of the entity called the emperor. The emperor is supposed to be august and exalted. Yet his photograph shows that he is just like us commoners. He has two eyes, one mouth, legs to walk with and hands to work with. But he doesn’t use his hands to work and his legs to walk. That the only difference. The reason I deny the necessity of the emperor rises from my belief that human beings are equal."
Fumiko Kaneko, 1903-1926
"Today it appears that the greatest amount of effort is needed to achieve the smallest degree of change. Millions march against the Iraq War, yet it goes ahead as planned. Hundreds of thousands protest austerity, but unprecedented budget cuts continue. Repeated student protests, occupations and riots struggle against rises in tuition fees, but they continue their inexorable advance. Around the world, people set up protest camps and mobilise against economic inequality, but the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. From the alter-globalisation struggles of the late 1990s, through the antiwar and ecological coalitions of the early 2000s, and into the new student uprisings and Occupy movements since 2008, a common pattern emerges: resistance struggles rise rapidly, mobilise increasingly large numbers of people, and yet fade away only to be replaced by a renewed sense of apathy, melancholy and defeat. Despite the desires of millions for a better world, the effects of these movements prove minimal."
Nick Srnicek, 1982-
"Less politically radical than horizontalism, though no less ubiquitous, is localism. As an ideology, localism extends far beyond the left, inflecting the politics of pro-capitalists, anti-capitalists, radicals and mainstream culture alike, as a new kind of political common sense. Shared between all of these is a belief that the abstraction and sheer scale of the modern world is at the root of our present political, ecological and economic problems, and that the solution therefore lies in adopting a ‘small is beautiful’ approach to the world.69 Smallscale actions, local economies, immediate communities, face-to-face interaction – all of these responses characterise the localist worldview. In a time when most of the political strategies and tactics developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries appear blunted and ineffectual, localism has a seductive logic to it. In all its diverse variants, from centre-right communitarianism70 to ethical consumerism,71 developmental microloans, and contemporary anarchist practice,72 the promise it offers to do something concrete, enabling political action with immediately noticeable effects, is empowering on an individual level. But this sense of empowerment can be misleading. The problem with localism is that, in attempting to reduce large-scale systemic problems to the more manageable sphere of the local community, it effectively denies the systemically interconnected nature of today’s world. Problems such as global exploitation, planetary climate change, rising surplus populations, and the repeated crises of capitalism are abstract in appearance, complex in structure, and non-localised. Though they touch upon every locality, they are never fully manifested in any particular region. Fundamentally, these are systemic and abstract problems, requiring systemic and abstract responses."
21st Century
"Wouldn't it be better for humanity, in general, to push beyond nature when the opportunity arises? Why not rise above nature instead of playing by its rules?"
BERNHE, 2004-
"...only for a bunch of children with delusions of grandeur to rip him off."
Unknown
"Gender is a scam made up by bathroom companies to sell more bathrooms"
manlikeisaac, ?-
- ↑ Just gonna quote a redditor:
"Lacan is a conservative due to his insistence on the symbolic meaning and truth attributed to Language. In essence, the left wing is always connected to the proposition of a flux in the systems of the old, but Lacan sticks to the iconisation of Language as a bridge to the symbolic and imaginary, and the lack thereof as a way to transcend onto the realm of the real.
In addition, he is firmly for the notion that the subconscious is revealed by language instead of a power of Marxist collective consciousness"
u/thesuavecritic
