"What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society."

-- Anne Holt

“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.”

Source : Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press
“No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."”
“For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.”
“Holly is alive,' thought Foaly 'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon”
“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog”

Source : Konrad Lorenz (2003). “King Solomon's Ring”, p.111, Routledge
“The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.”
“Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.”

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