Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr. #freepalestine

They (the silent) risk tarnishing the pathetic monuments of status and wealth they spent their lives constructing. Idols. They bow down before these idols. They worship these idols. They are enslaved by them.
At the feet of these idols lie tens of thousands of murdered Palestinians. -Chris Hedges

"everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself" -Henry Miller

#freepalestine #fascism

"Evil is an infinitely complex set of micro-techniques somehow lost in time—that is, subtle inflections of possibility and obscure typologies of influence that once reached across every divide." Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

“The soul is real, and if we don’t stand up against these rapacious forces of radical evil, our soul will die, and we may not win but we must save our soul” -Chris Hedges on Al Jazeera English with Marc Lamont Hill
#freepalestine

How could the Palestinians be “genuine partners” in peace talks when they have no country? But how could they have a country when it was taken from them? The Palestinians were never given any choice other than unconditional surrender. All they were offered was death. -Deleuze on Palestine

Not only does the people have no precise consciousness of its own historical identity, it is not even conscious of the historical identity or the exact limits of its adversary.
—Antonio Gramsci

“Coming to power is a costly business: power makes stupid…” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols The Anti-Christ

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. -Peter Ustinov

“The tragedy is not that the American Empire is declining, the tragedy is that we’re bringing so many people down with us.” -Daniel Berrigan

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliber-ately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.“ -Henry David Thoreau

“A human life in the Gaza Strip is worth less than the lives of the thousands of stray dogs that roam the area looking for food.

“Hyper individualism is a form of disempowerment, and they know it. So you get to express your personal identity, while you’re being stripped of collective power.” -Chris Hedges

“To save a life, is to save an entire world” - a phrase which originates from the Talmudic passage "Whoever saves a single life is considered by scripture to have saved the whole world."

"Totalitarianism is a form of government that claims to be the only true voice of the people, even as it silences all alternatives." -Sheldon Wolin