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Mediocrity

The Right to Be Lazy

Emma Goldman archive

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Out of Kirby Mountain
[ commentary on wind energy, animal rights, progressive politics, what you will ]

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But I don't answer to inevitabilities, and neither do you. I don't answer to the economy. I don't answer to tradition and I don't answer to Everyone. For me, it comes down to a question of whether I am a man or just a consumer. Whether to reason or just to rationalize. Whether to heed my conscience or my every craving, to assert my free will or just my will. Whether to side with the powerful and comfortable or with the weak, afflicted, and forgotten.

— Matthew Scully —

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COMPETITION: An event in which there are more losers than winners.
Otherwise it's not a competition. A society based on competition
is therefore primarily a society based on losers.

— John Ralston Saul —

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The rules of the marketplace recreate by artificial means the brutality,
unfairness, and helplessness that humans have sought to escape
for most of their evolution.

— Sam Smith —

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The great are great only because we are on our knees.

— Max Stirner —

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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai Stevenson —


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