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"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"The social game has a deeper double meaning—that it is played not only in a society as its outward bearer but that with its help people actually "play" "society."

"Jürgen Habermas in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality."

"Even the eye that is artificially trained to see color as color, apart from things that colors qualify, cannot shut out the resonances and transfers of value."

"Rationalism" is a historical concept that contains within itself a world of contradictions."

"Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings."

"Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization."

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🇫🇷Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics

1805–1859

"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

"History breaks down in images not into stories."

"We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty."

"History is at once freedom and necessity."

"This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument."

"Sir Karl Popper: "Science: Conjectures and Refutations"

"In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help."

"When Martin teased, he taught Maggie and Marty Jr. to interpret the meaning of a twinkle in his eye, slight alterations of his voice, shifts in his facial expression."

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John Ruskin

Art

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1819–1900

"Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."

"Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language."

"A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one."

"No less importantly, intellectual probing is needed to identify deeds that are not intended to be injurious, but which have that effect..."

"The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape."

"Libcom.org/library Frederick Engels archive"

"their actors choose a course of action depending on what their competitors do."

"We must unmask the ideological falsehoods of the many powers, and especially we must show that the famous theory of the rule of law which lulls the democracies is a lie from beginning to end."

"To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea."

"No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."

"As a suggested working definition, we may define power as control or influence over the actions of others to promote one's goals without their consent, against their "will," or without their knowledge or understanding."

"What is intelligible in history can be formulated only with reference to problems and conceptual constructions which themselves arise in the flux of historical experience."

"Ivan Illich at Penn State: Continuing the Conversation"

"Isaiah Berlin, Beyond the Wit" by Evan R. Goldstein"

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🇺🇸Mary Parker Follett

Philosophy

1868–1933

"Man can have no rights apart from society or independent of society or against society."

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🇫🇷Jean-François Lyotard

Philosophy

Continental philosophy

1924–1998

"Already in the last few decades, economic powers have reached the point of imperiling the stability of the state through new forms of the circulation of capital that go by the generic name of multinational corporations."

Thomas Robert Malthus

Politics

1766–1834

"It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power."

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🇺🇸James Samuel Coleman

Literature

1926–1995

"Industrial society has made of high school a social system of adolescents...set apart, in an institution of their own."

"Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium will cut down on another . This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting."

"Conflict is viewed as the active striving for one's own preferred outcome which, if attained, precludes the attainment by others of their own preferred outcome, thereby producing hostility."

"I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel."

"A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject."

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