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Quote for the day – Saturday February 14
“It is in revolution’s fire, in its enthusiasm, its brotherhood, its aggressiveness that the image and the feeling of positive unification awakens; a unification that comes through a connecting quality: love as force”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
Quote for the day – Friday February 13
“It has taken me all of my life so far to realize that the single great obstacle in the way of survival and an extended human vision is the industrial society itself, and its expropriation and suppression of the most sensitive and creative qualities of the mind”.
Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes
Quote for the day – Thursday February 12
“Anyone who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is”.
Meister Eckhart
Quote for the day – Wednesday February 11
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another”.
Hermann Hesse, Siddharta
Quote for the Day – Tuesday February 10
“Life in societies is no exception in the animal world; it is the rule, the law of Nature, and it reaches its fullest development with the higher vertebrates”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
