Washington’s Influence

“…in South America, there was real progress toward democracy, which the Reagan Administration generally opposed, later taking credit for it when the process proved irresistible. Where Washington’s influence was greatest, progress was least, and where it occurred, the U.S. role was marginal or negative.”
-Noam Chomsky

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 96)

Neoliberal Elections

“In some respects the caliber of debate and choice in neoliberal elections tends to be closer to that of the one-part communist state than a genuine democracy.”
-Robert W. McChesney

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 10)

Neoliberalism: Enemy of the State

“…neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
- Robert W. McChesney

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 11)

For those who "don't care about politics"

“The neoliberal system … has an important and necessary byproduct-a depoliticized citizenry marked by apathy and cynicism.”
- Robert W. McChesney

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 10)

“Por mucho que el hombre amplíe sus conocimientos y se muestre todo lo objetivo que quiera, el único fruto que consigue no es más que su propia biografía.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

(Humano, Gradifco, 253)

“If artworks are answers to their own questions, they themselves thereby truly become questions.”
-Theodor W. Adorno

(Aesthetic Theory, U of Minnesota Press, 6)

“It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.”
-Theodor W. Adorno

(Aesthetic Theory, U of Minnesota Press, 1)

Opposing War

“There are thousand who are in opinion opposed to…war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and do nothing; who even postpone the question of freedom to the question of free trade…”
-Henry David Thoreau

(On Civil Disobedience, Classic Books America, 6)

Para el autodesprecio

“El remedio más seguro para esa enfermedad masculina que es el autodesprecio consiste en ser amado por una mujer inteligente.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
(Humano, Gradifco, 209)

De los padres

“Los padres tienen mucho que hacer para expiar el hecho de tener hijos.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
(Humano, Gradifco, 209)

La mujer perfecta

“La mujer perfecta es un tipo de ser humano superior al varón perfecto, aunque también más escaso.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
(Humano, Gradifco, 209)

Men

“Men. You all say the same stupid shit. ‘The world is meaningless. We all die alone. Nothing means anything.’”
-Hank Moody

(God Hates us all, Simon Spotlight, 172)

We build connections

“Maybe we’re all out there, floating by ourselves in some big black void. But we build connections, you know? We build our own worlds with the people we love.”
-Hank Moody

(God Hates us all, 172)

Art

“There is no art without eyes that see it as art.
-Jacques Rancière

Visibility of Words

“…words deploy a visibility that can be blinding.
-Jacques Rancière

(The Future of the Image, Verso, 7)

“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.”
-Henry David Thoreau

(On Civil Disobedience, Classic Books America, 4)

A Relationship with government

“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
-Henry David Thoreau

(On Civil Disobedience, Classic Books America, 4)

Soldiers

“A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?”
-Henry David Thoreau

(On Civil Disobedience, Classic Books America, 3)

A government that respect us

“…I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
-Henry David Thoreau

(On Civil Disobedience, Classic Books America, 2)

La mancha del otro

“El amor dura tres semanas. El resto es un gran esfuerzo por recordar y olvidar. Se intenta recordar esas tres semanas durante toda una vida y, a su vez, se olvidan las inmundicias, malos olores, sudor, sangre, menstruación, esperma, secreciones: la mancha que dejó el otro.”
-Cezanne Cardona

(La velocidad, Terranova, 88)