The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The flannel, the Catholic mysticism, the bunker aesthetic — it’s all part of the shameless act. Underneath is a Machiavellian tactician who understands power not as something to dismantle, but to inhabit. Part P.T. Barnum, part Pat Buchanan, this is a man who preaches humility while flying private. Steve Bannon isn’t leading a rebellion. He is selling one.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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The post-liberal university is defined by a combination of moneymaking and activism. Perhaps the biggest difference between 1968 and 2024 is that the ideas of a radical vanguard are now the instincts of entire universities—administrators, faculty, students. They’re enshrined in reading lists and codes of conduct and ubiquitous clichés.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Like sailors in a storm, expecting every instant to go to the bottom, the believers suddenly became religious, prayed violently, and flattered themselves that they repented them of their evil courses. But a plain tale soon put them down, and quenched their religion entirely.
~ Charles MacKay
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We need to deal with our resources differently, in terms of how we waste things. We have to move away from the throwaway habit. Things can, and must, last longer.
~ Dieter Rams
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The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Steve Bannon is not a warrior for the working man. He’s a salesman in battle gear, with a podcast mic and a passport full of donor meetings. He doesn’t live among the people — he studies them, scripts their anger, then sells it back to them. He’s rebranded himself so many times — naval officer, investment banker, Hollywood producer, political strategist — you’d think he was running a hedge fund in identity.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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