Sean's Tumblelog

“ The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

(Source: goodreads.com)

“ Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, ‘My current model’ — or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel — ‘contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised.’ In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

— Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger

(Source: Boing Boing)

“ The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

— Stephen Spender, World Within World

(Source: happiness-project.com)

“ Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

— Howard Zinn

(Source: goodreads.com)

ORGANIZE! The Power of the 99%

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First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.

— Pastor Martin Niemöller

(Source: Wikipedia)

“ It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

(Source: brainyquote.com)

“ The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

— Lao-tzu

(Source: quotersbook.com)

“ The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

— Edward O. Wilson

(Source: harvardmagazine.com)

“ MENTICIDE - the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas.

— Menticide | Define Menticide at Dictionary.com