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🇩🇪Rosa Luxemburg

Social Activism

1871–1919

"Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee."

🇺🇸Toni Morrison

Literature

1931–2019

"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

🇺🇸Marilyn Ferguson

Literature

1938–2008

"The instruction booklet for Stargate, a contemporary symbolic game relating to consciousness, opens: The turning about is upon us, the turning of mind, the expansion of eyes... the light that shapes from within."

🇬🇧Richard Aldington

Literature

1892–1962

"By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency."

Julius Fučík (journalist)

Journalism

1903–1943

"Humans, I have loved you all. Be vigilant!"

Sergei Diaghilev

Business

1872–1929

"Tchaikovsky thought of committing suicide for fear of being discovered as a homosexual, but today, if you are a composer and not homosexual, you might as well put a bullet through your head."

Poul Henningsen

Literature

1894–1967

"By making this chair five times as expensive, three times heavier, half as comfortable, and only a fraction as beautiful, an architect can make a good name for himself."

🇨🇭Rudolf Steiner

Philosophy

anthroposophy

1861–1925

"Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life."

"His rise to the status of Republican presidential candidate will stand as a unique historic achievement."

🇺🇸George R. R. Martin

Literature

b. 1948

"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."

"I started delivering flowers for 25 cents a shot so don't tell me about the shop floor."

🇺🇸Assata Shakur

Social Activism

1947–2025

"There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army. The main function of the Black."

🇷🇺Nikolai Bukharin

Politics

1888–1938

"In all grades of army life, the proletariat is in control through the instrumentality of the communist commissars, who both at the front and at the rear are mainly drawn from among the workers."

🇬🇧Will Gompertz

Literature

b. 1965

"It is, after all, our imagination that makes us human. Vincent van Gogh asked, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” To which the answer is, I would have thought, boring, bordering on pointless."

🇺🇸Max Shachtman

Philosophy

1903–1972

". . . the Negro in Africa had reared mighty empires, and astonishingly advanced achievements are linked with his race in the annals of mankind."

🇺🇸Roxane Gay

Literature

b. 1974

"There is a before and an after…In the after I was broken, shattered, and silent."

🇬🇧Laurie Penny

Literature

b. 1986

"Young people growing up with pressure to perform in every aspect of their lives find themselves aping a robotic capitalist eroticism that has little to do with their own legitimate desires."

🇺🇸George R.R. Martin

Literature

1948–2019

"Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love."

🇺🇸Christopher Golden

Literature

b. 1967

"Strangewood was never silent. It was never supposed to be. There was such life and color in the wood and in the creatures who lived there that silence would be tantamount to death. It was very silent in Strangewood."

🇬🇧Vernon Richards

Technology

1915–2001

"Vernon Richards,from the Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia"

🇺🇸Kass Morgan

Literature

b. 1984

"Bellamy worried about her constantly. The kid was special, and he'd do anything to give her a chance at a different life. Anything to make up for what she'd had to endure."

🇺🇸Margaret Caroline Anderson

Literature

modernist literature

1886–1973

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

"Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

🇩🇪Gustav Landauer

Philosophy

Materialism

1870–1919

"Now it can become clear to man that freedom and peace of the nations can only come when as Jesus and his followers, and in our time above all Tolstoi advised, they choose to fully abstain from any violence."

🇺🇸Edmund Wilson

Literature

1895–1972

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

"The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too."

"Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world."

"She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible."

🇺🇸Karl Hess

Literature

Libertarianism

1923–1994

"Karl Hess and the Death of Politics by Jeff Riggenbach"

🇮🇷Abbas Kiarostami

Entertainment

1940–2016

"The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual."

🇬🇧J. C. Squire

Literature

1884–1958

"The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused."

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Politics

1850–1937

"Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy."

Eduard Bernstein

Literature

1850–1932

"The parties which assumed the names of liberals were, or became in due course, simple guardians of capitalism."

🇺🇸John Avlon

Journalism

b. 1973

"The independence of our nation is inseparable from our interdependence as a people"

🇬🇧Roy Ascott

Art

contemporary art

b. 1934

"When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just as system supersedes structure."