“Capitalism is entirely without precedent, in that it is a religion which offers not the reform of existence but its complete destruction. It is the expansion of despair, until despair becomes a religious state of the world in the hope that this will lead to salvation.“ (1/2)
-Walter Benjamin
-Walter Benjamin
October 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Capitalism is entirely without precedent, in that it is a religion which offers not the reform of existence but its complete destruction. It is the expansion of despair, until despair becomes a religious state of the world in the hope that this will lead to salvation.“ (1/2)
-Walter Benjamin
-Walter Benjamin
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
July 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them."
May 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them."
“The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky”
-Nina Simone
-Nina Simone
May 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky”
-Nina Simone
-Nina Simone
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
May 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Office in a Small City (Hopper)
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Office in a Small City (Hopper)
May 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Office in a Small City (Hopper)
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Office in a Small City (Hopper)
“Behind the ostensible gov’t sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance & acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible gov’t, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today”
-T.R.
-T.R.
May 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Behind the ostensible gov’t sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance & acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible gov’t, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today”
-T.R.
-T.R.
“Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, ‘Main Street, not Wall Street,’ but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.”
-Žižek
-Žižek
May 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
“Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, ‘Main Street, not Wall Street,’ but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.”
-Žižek
-Žižek
“How long will the despots' fury be called justice, and the people's justice barbarism or rebellion?”
-Maximilien Robespierre
The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
-Maximilien Robespierre
The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“How long will the despots' fury be called justice, and the people's justice barbarism or rebellion?”
-Maximilien Robespierre
The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
-Maximilien Robespierre
The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
-Oscar Wilde
On the Seashore (Knöchel)
-Oscar Wilde
On the Seashore (Knöchel)
April 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
-Oscar Wilde
On the Seashore (Knöchel)
-Oscar Wilde
On the Seashore (Knöchel)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Kansas City Spirit (Rockwell)
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Kansas City Spirit (Rockwell)
April 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Kansas City Spirit (Rockwell)
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Kansas City Spirit (Rockwell)
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free & tear off every yoke?”
-Isaiah 58:6
Christ in the Desert (Kramskoi)
-Isaiah 58:6
Christ in the Desert (Kramskoi)
March 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free & tear off every yoke?”
-Isaiah 58:6
Christ in the Desert (Kramskoi)
-Isaiah 58:6
Christ in the Desert (Kramskoi)
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes”
-Ernest Hemingway
-Ernest Hemingway
February 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes”
-Ernest Hemingway
-Ernest Hemingway
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
-Benito Mussolini
-Benito Mussolini
February 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
-Benito Mussolini
-Benito Mussolini
“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
-Ptolemy
Eve(Hawksley)
-Ptolemy
Eve(Hawksley)
January 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
-Ptolemy
Eve(Hawksley)
-Ptolemy
Eve(Hawksley)
“Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts & moves, & this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity.“
-Leo Tolstoy
Apple Harvest (Pissarro)
-Leo Tolstoy
Apple Harvest (Pissarro)
November 24, 2024 at 6:32 PM
“Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts & moves, & this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity.“
-Leo Tolstoy
Apple Harvest (Pissarro)
-Leo Tolstoy
Apple Harvest (Pissarro)
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
-Baruch Spinoza
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (Mondrian)
-Baruch Spinoza
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (Mondrian)
November 24, 2024 at 6:17 PM
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
-Baruch Spinoza
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (Mondrian)
-Baruch Spinoza
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (Mondrian)
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.””
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
November 15, 2024 at 9:55 PM
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.””
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.”
-Peter Kropotkin
Les Batteurs de Pieux (Luce)
-Peter Kropotkin
Les Batteurs de Pieux (Luce)
September 26, 2024 at 8:37 AM
“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.”
-Peter Kropotkin
Les Batteurs de Pieux (Luce)
-Peter Kropotkin
Les Batteurs de Pieux (Luce)
“One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (West)
-Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (West)
August 19, 2024 at 6:31 PM
“One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (West)
-Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (West)
“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)
August 19, 2024 at 6:26 PM
“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)
"It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
City Life (Arnautoff)
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
City Life (Arnautoff)
July 12, 2024 at 7:08 PM
"It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
City Life (Arnautoff)
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
City Life (Arnautoff)
"What labor everywhere wants, what it ought to have, & will someday demand & receive, is an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. As the laborer becomes more intelligent he will develop what capital he already possesses—that is the power to organize & combine for its own protection." -Douglass
July 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM
"What labor everywhere wants, what it ought to have, & will someday demand & receive, is an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. As the laborer becomes more intelligent he will develop what capital he already possesses—that is the power to organize & combine for its own protection." -Douglass
“Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
-Galatians 6:2
The Raising of Lazarus (Guercino)
-Galatians 6:2
The Raising of Lazarus (Guercino)
July 12, 2024 at 6:53 PM
“Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
-Galatians 6:2
The Raising of Lazarus (Guercino)
-Galatians 6:2
The Raising of Lazarus (Guercino)
“Now you look into the eyes of another being, and you see another being just like you looking back at you. Are you in there? Far out! I’m in here. How did you get into that one? And what you see at that moment is another awareness just like you, but packaged differently.” -Ram Dass
July 5, 2024 at 5:58 PM
“Now you look into the eyes of another being, and you see another being just like you looking back at you. Are you in there? Far out! I’m in here. How did you get into that one? And what you see at that moment is another awareness just like you, but packaged differently.” -Ram Dass