"The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime."

-- Leon Trotsky

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“What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?”
“But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.”
“My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.”

Source : "Savages: Silence Yourself" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. May 6, 2013.
“I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.”
“And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.31, Carcanet
“Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!”
“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.”

Source : "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.
“Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.”

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