April 18

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Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. ~ Bill Hicks
2005
Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. ~ Leopold Stokowski (born 18 April 1882)
2006
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. ~ Clarence Darrow (born 18 April 1857)
2007
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. ~ Clarence Darrow
2008
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ Clarence Darrow
2009

[edit] Suggestions

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man. I am quite certain that the more the question of crime and its treatment is studied the less faith men have in punishment. ~ Clarence Darrow

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. ~ Clarence Darrow

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ~ Clarence Darrow

The German Romantics had to destroy the same bastions we do. Logocentrism and idealism, theology, all supports of the repressive society. Property's pillars. Reason which always homogenizes and reduces, represses and unifies phenomena or actuality into what can be perceived and so controlled. The subjects, us, are now stable and socializable. Reason is always in the service of the political and economic masters. It is here that literature strikes, at this base, where the concepts and actings of order impose themselves. Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. ~ Kathy Acker

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Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. ~ Kathy Acker

  • 3 Kalki 22:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 23:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. ~ Kathy Acker

  • 4 Kalki 22:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 23:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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