“Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.” PersonsDoeSecretCasesRecordsOffersIndependentAlternativesDumbDaily LifeVehicleJournalSuperficialAlasDeafSense Of SelfIlliterateJournalingKeeping A JournalSecret Thoughts Author:Susan Sontag
“The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.” WayBelieveFightingI BelieveProjectsIndependentConstantSpreadTraditionalAlternativesRequestCircuits Author:Katya Chamma
“When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film... Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore.” KnowsMeanDoeFilmHellIndependentPatientAlternativesQueensIndependent FilmDenmarkRevolverBlowfishAlternative Music Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical.” WayCommunitySpaceDealsMediaKeysFindingsToolsIndependentCriticalAlternativesDistributionSatellitesNew MediaIndependent Media Author:Chuck D
“Venezuela is independent. It's diversifying its exports to a limited extent, instead of just being dependent on exports to the United States. And it's initiating moves toward Latin American integration and independence. It's what they call a Bolivarian alternative and the United States doesn't like any of that.” StatesMovingUnitedUnited StatesIndependentIndependenceAlternativesDependentLatinJust BeingIntegrationLatin AmericaVenezuelaLatin American Author:Noam Chomsky
“I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.” ThinkingWantGovernmentFacesWomenPositionSucceedVoteEnglandIndependentAlternativesInternational Women's DayInternational Women Day Author:Emmeline Pankhurst
“The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary power... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic - this is the key political argument against an independent central bank.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsGivingImportantBodyPoliticalMistakeLibertyPowerEconomicEffectsTrustKeysArgumentIndependentDetermineBelieverChecksAlternativesReachingQuantityArbitraryDiscretionSpiritedCentral BanksEconomic FreedomPolitical Arguments Author:Milton Friedman
“I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage where vows are broken, our rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. These constitutional violations have increased independent of whether there's been a Democrat-controlled Washington or a Republican-controlled Washington.” WantBelieveHas BeensEnoughGovernmentLeftI BelieveNationsDifferencesRightsBrokenRepublicanProtectConstitutionIndependentDemocratSeparationAlternativesControlledVowViolationLeft Alone Book:American Contempt for Liberty Source: American Contempt for Liberty