“No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!”
“ريقك بطعم العسل إيه اللي قلبه مرار كان نفسي أكون لك ولي واطفي بإيدي النار فستان زفافك دبل ولا عاد فرح يرويه”
“The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.”
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men”
“A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.”
“Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one—the triumph of Christianity —that can be called in the fullest sense a revolution : a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity s prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.”
“A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.”
“A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.”
“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for example, Robespierre said, in his justification of the regicide, that one does not have to prove that the king committed any specific crimes, since the very existence of the king is a crime, an offence against the freedom of the people). In this strict sense, every violence of the oppressed against the ruling class and its state is ultimately ‘defensive’. If we do not concede this point, we volens nolens ‘normalize’ the state and accept that its violence is merely a matter of contin gent excesses (to be dealt with through democratic reforms).”
“His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principle of the second bag. Because the people never revolt just because they have to carry a heavy load, or because of exploitation. They don t know life without exploitation, they don t even know that such a life exists. How can they desire what they cannot imagine? The people will rvolt only when, in a single movement, someone tries to throw a second burden, a second heavy bag, onto their backs. The peasant will fall face down into the mud - and then spring up and grab an ax. He ll grab an ax, my gracious sir, not because he simply can t sustain this new burden - he could carry it - he will rise because he feels that, in throwing the second burden onto his back suddenly and stealthily, you have tried to cheat him, you have treated him like an unthinking animal, you have trampled what remains of his already strangled dignity, taken him for an idiot who doesn t see, feel, or understand. A man doesn t seize an ax in defense of his wallet, but in defense of his dignity, and that, dear sir, is why His Majesty scolded the clerks. For their own convenience and vanity, instead of adding the burden bit by bit, in little bags, they tried to heave a whole big sack on at once.”
“The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.”
“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].”
“Revolution must take place within one s own mind.”
“Ok I m not so smart I m working class. But it s the working class that keeps the world running and it s the working class that get exploited. What kind revolution is it that just throws out big words that working class people can t understand. Revolution or not the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes I m not going to believe in any damned revolution. Love is all I m going to believe in. -- Midori”
“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don t disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it seeks to mobilize them. Far too much media reform rhetoric rests on melodramatic discourse about victimization and vulnerability, seduction and manipulation, propaganda machines and weapons of mass deception . Again and again, this version of the media reform movement has ignored the complexity of the public s relationship to popular culture and sided with those opposed to a more diverse and participatory culture. The politics of critical utopianism is founded on a notion of empowerment; the politics of critical pessimism on a politics of victimization. One focuses on what we are doing with media, and the other on what media is doing to us. As with previous revolutions, the media reform movement is gaining momentum at a time when people are starting to feel more empowered, not when they are at their weakest.”
“Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.”
“Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.”