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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to…
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…
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States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize…
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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has…
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
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Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct…
— Jacques Ellul
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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…
— Victor Hugo
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Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard Zinn
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Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.
— Emma Goldman
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Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…
— Tony Benn
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The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this…
— Dolores Huerta
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Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.
— Julian Assange
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
— David Graeber
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