“Painful wounds, the indifference of friends, the loneliness of losing— all leave a bitter taste. But at these times, he says to himself: ‘I fought for something and did not succeed. I lost the first battle.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“People are worried that machines will take over the world and then they’ll have no voice any more. Well - what voice do you have today, despite having a voice! You are already puppets to your political overlords. You don’t think for yourself, you don’t feel for yourself, you don’t behave for yourself - heck, that’s why you have election in the first place - not so you could choose a leader, but so you don’t have to take any responsibility.
And you are still worried about machines taking over your lives! Your lives are already taken over, not by mechanical deities but by organic sectarian deities born of the womb of your own indifference. So forget about a fictitious future which may or may not happen and pay attention to the real threat that haunts the society in the present - namely, your own indifference.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“I am no Gandhi, that I would rather let people be tortured by imperialist morons than raise my hand in their defense. I am no Guevara either, that I would accept the loss of innocent lives in my fight for freedom. I am a whole, accountable, thinking human being living in a world still infested with and run by cruelty and biases. Where the situation demands silence, I'll keep quiet, but if and where it demands a bulldozer, believe you me, no gun, no grenade, my bare hands will cause a riot.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“If you like sleeping, don't mock those who don't. If they fall asleep, you and your children won't.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“World peace is not an absence of world conflicts, world peace is the absence of civilian indifference towards world conflicts.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“There is no humanitarian crisis, there is just everyday, ordinary human indifference.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“War is a bad bad thing, but you know what's worse - it's the silence of the civilians who don't even raise an eyebrow at the tomfoolery of the warmongers.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Capitalists rule the world, because civilians lay low. Politicians rule the world, because civilians lay low.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Be the last first human standing.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“The strategy of exorcizing the sexual body by wildly exaggerating the signs of sex, of exorcizing desire by its secret depolarization and the exaggeration of its mise en scene, is much more effective than that of good old repression, which , by contrast, used prohibition to create difference. Yet it is not clear who benefits from this strategy, as everyone suffers it without distinction. This travestied regime - in the broadest sense — has become the very basis of our institutions. You find it everywhere — in politics, architecture, theory, ideology and even in science.
You even find it in our desperate quest for identity and difference. We no longer have the time to seek out an identity in the historical record, in memory , in a past, nor indeed in a project or a future. We have to have an instant memory which we can plug in to immediately - a kind of promotional identity which can be verified at every moment. What we look for today, where the body is concerned , is not so much health, which is a state of organic equilibrium, but fitness, which is an ephemeral , hygienic , promotional radiance of the body - much more a performance than an ideal state — which turns sickness into failure. In terms of fashion and appearance , we no longer pursue beauty or seductiveness, but the 'look' .
Everyone is after their 'look'. Since you can no longer set any store by your own existence (we no longer look at each other - and seduction is at an end!), all that remains is to perform an appearing act, without bothering to be, or even to be seen.
It is not: 'I exist, I'm here' , but 'I'm visible, I'm image — look , look!' This is not even narcissism. It's a depthless extraversion, a kind of promotional ingenuousness in which everyone becomes the impresario of his/her own appearance.
The 'look ' is a kind of minimal, low-definition image, like the video image or, as McLuhan would say, a tactile image , which provokes neither attention nor admiration, as fashion still does, but is a pure special effect without any particular meaning . The look is not exactly fashion any more; it is a form of fashion which has passed beyond. It no longer subscribes to a logic of distinction and it is no longer a play of difference; it plays at difference without believing in it. It is indifference. Being oneself becomes an ephemeral performance , with no lasting effects, a disenchanted mannerism in a world without manners.”
Source: Screened Out