Mechanising Quotes & Sayings

But to interpret the Islamic waqf as an 'act' of citizenship is at best unconventional. This argument requires changing our modern understanding of citizenship as contractual status. It requires considering the ways in which the concept of citizenship has evolved through history and how it enabled a division between modern and traditional and occidental and oriental.2 Once we fulfill these requirements, new avenues of thought open up through which we can interpret Islamic waqfs as acts of citizenship. — Pascale Gazaleh

The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the "appearance" of industrialism and mechanisation in huge areas of the world previously dominated by landed and precapitalist forms of production.
Constructing industrialism and mechanising things is supposedly the same as building socialism whenever central and "national" plans are made. This is the mistaken thesis. — Amadeo Bordiga

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity. — Arnold Bennett

My purpose of life is very simple; I live just for the joy of living. — Debasish Mridha

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines. — D.H. Lawrence

The Sierra becomes an addiction, addiction to common sense simplicity and an awareness of living in the now. — Dena M. Mercer

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment. — Timothy Findley

It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support. — Megan McKenna

Next time you call my kid a whore, I will end you, you fuckin' feel me? — Madeline Sheehan