#p

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#become #believing #churches #once #organizations

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#each #freedom #grazing #individual #left

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverbs #sentences

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fiction #journalism #life #mainly #newspapers

If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you. ↗

— Michael East

#go #going #guys #left #past

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#miserable #only #partners #their #tis

A person dishonored is worst than dead. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#person #than #worst

Jests that give pains are no jests. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#jests #pains

Man appoints, and God disappoints. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#disappoints #god #man