Invisible Committee Quotes

#1. We're not depressed; we're on strike. For those who refuse to manage themselves, "depression" is not a state but a passage, a bowing out, a sidestep towards a political disaffiliation.

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#2. It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing ... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

V.S. Naipaul

#3. It's useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.

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#4. Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

Rima Fakih

#6. In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

#7. We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it.

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#8. What did you ASK at school today?

Richard P. Feynman

#9. The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and
to add insult to injury
at a profit.

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#10. No more selfishness. Just a balanced, contented, and richly meaningful life.

Fennel Hudson

#11. What did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off.

Jack Kerouac

#12. Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy ... We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis.

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#13. It is called cacophobia, Miss Snow. It is a disorder. I blinked at him, trying my best not to laugh hysterically and roll on the floor.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#14. The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

Ricardo Semler

#15. Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

Eric Clapton

#16. We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor.

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#17. Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Edwin Louis Cole

#18. I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

Ray Lewis

#19. Survivors feel unsafe in their bodies. Their emotions and their thinking feel out of control. They also feel unsafe in relation to other people.

Judith Lewis Herman

#20. If you find yourself with a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, then the most probable explanation is that you were made for another world.

C.S. Lewis