There is no more efficient way to expose your own mundanity than through writing. So be it. Perhaps the mundane has some minor value.”
Mundanity
Tag: Quoted
A Commodity
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
— Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared released a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt? What are the best things and the worst things in your life and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
— Ray Bradbury
People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
– Greta Thunberg
Animals are not lesser humans; they are other worlds.”
— Barbara Noske, Humans and Other Animals (via Randomitus)
Until we start measuring what we value, we will continue to overvalue what we measure.”
— Kim Goodwin, Offscreen #21 (via Patrick Rhone)
Nevertheless the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
People should think about the consequences of the little choices they make each day. What do you buy? Where did it come from? Where was it made? Did it harm the environment? Did it lead to cruelty to animals? Was it cheap because of child slave labor?”
— Jane Godall (via swissmiss)
Lisa Marie Blair 