Michael Hardt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.
-- Michael Hardt

#Pharaohs #Revolution #Doe
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and unmask illusions, and not only to incarnate the mechanisms of new practices of knowledge, but also, together with others in a process of co-research, to produce a new truth. -- Commonwealth, 118
-- Michael Hardt

#Practice #Errors #Intellectual
Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam, and pandemonium. What a tragic lack of political imagination to think that leaders and centralized structures are the only way to organize effective political projects!
-- Michael Hardt

#Party #Mean #Thinking
Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.
-- Michael Hardt

#Resistance #Events #World
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.
-- Michael Hardt

#Book #Reading #Animal
The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protectionâ€”the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on whichâ€”and against whichâ€”movements of resistance and rebellion must act.
-- Michael Hardt

#Communication #Democracy #Hegemony
In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.
-- Michael Hardt

#Military #Practice #United States

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Michael Hardt famous quotes

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