#om

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. ↗

— Johann Most

#based #calls #communist #conditions #himself

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. ↗

— Johann Most

#christians #disease #god #heal #improve

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life. ↗

— Johann Most

#communism #does #himself #his #individual

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#because #being #cook #cooked #dinner

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#arts #become #education #fine #fine arts

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#certain #certain degree #converses #degree #every

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. ↗

— Andy Summers

#compete #guitar #hard #keyboards #serious

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#already #been #crown #fall #first