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Pier Paolo Pasolini: In the United States, during my very brief stay, I lived for several hours in the clandestine climate of struggle, of revolutionary urgency, of hope that was that of Europe in 1944 and 1945. (…) I followed a young black trade unionist who led me to the section of his movement, a small movement that only counts in Harlem a few hundred members – and who fights black unemployment; I followed him to one of his comrades, a mason who had had an accident at work and who welcomed us lying on his poor bed, with the smile of friend, accomplice and full of the love our resisters had and that we have forgotten. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



Pier Paolo Pasolini: I want to say that if I am a Marxist, this Marxism has always been extremely critical of official Communists, especially with regard to the PCI; I have always been a minority outside the Party since my first book of poetry, The Ashes of Gramsci. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Pier Paolo Pasolini: When there is nothing left of the classical world, when all of the peasants and craftsmen are dead, when industry has made the cycle of production and consumption turn relentlessly, then our story will be over. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



Pier Paolo Pasolini: I am not Catholic ideologically and I am not a believer, so I do not see why my rationalization of the irrational must be Catholic, my rationalization is Marxist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…




Pier Paolo Pasolini: The fever of consumption is a fever of obedience to an unspoken order. Everyone, in Italy, feels the degrading anxiety of being like the others in the act of consummation, of being happy, of being free, because that is the order that each one has unconsciously received and to which he “must” obey if he feels different. Never has difference been such a frightful fault, as in this period of tolerance. Equality has not, in fact, been conquered, but is, on the contrary, a “false” equality received as a gift. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Pier Paolo Pasolini: The responsibility of television is enormous, not, of course, as a technical medium, but as an instrument of power and as power itself. Because it is not only a space through which messages circulate, but is also a message-processing center. It constitutes the space where a mentality is realised which, without it, would not know where to house itself. It is through the spirit of television that the spirit of the new power concretely manifests itself. There is no doubt (the results prove it) that television is authoritarian and repressive, as no other means of information in the world has ever been. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



Pier Paolo Pasolini: The bourgeois – let’s say it with wit – is a vampire, who is not at peace until he has bitten the neck of his victim for pure, natural and familiar pleasure, to see her become pale, sad, ugly, lifeless, twisted, corrupt, worried, guilty, calculating, aggressive, terrorizing, like him. (…) The time has come to recognize that it is not enough to consider the bourgeoisie as a social class, but as a disease; henceforth, to regard it as a social class is even ideologically and politically an error (and that even through the purest and most intelligent instruments of Marxism-Leninism). In fact, the history of the bourgeoisie – by means of a technological civilization, which neither Marx nor Lenin could have foreseen – is about to concretely coincide with the totality of world history. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Who gave us – both young and old – the official language of protest? Marxism, poetry and the memory of the Resistance, which revives the thoughts of Vietnam and Bolivia. Why do I regret the official language of protest that the working class, through its bourgeois ideology, has given me? Because it is a language that never forgets the idea of power and is therefore always practical and reasonable. But are not pragmatism and reason the same gods who have made our bourgeois fathers mad and idiots? Poor Wagner and Nietzsche! wordsmith.social/protestation/…


J'appelle sage celui qui, tout innocent qu'il est, supporte les injures et les coups avec une patience égale à sa force.


Citation apocryphe.

Voici une vraie parole de Siddhārtha Gautama extraite du Dhammapada (IVe siècle avant J.-C.):

«320 - Comme un éléphant dans la bataille
Supporte les flèches lancées par les archers,
Je supporterai fausses accusations et insultes
Car nombreux sont les gens sans scrupules.»

dhammatalks.net/French/Thaniss…


|J'appelle sage celui qui, tout innocent qu'il est, supporte les injures et les coups avec une patience égale à sa force.|



Quand tout le monde vous ment en permanence, le résultat n'est pas que vous croyez ces mensonges mais que plus personne ne croit plus rien.


Citation extraite d'un entretien avec Roger Errera en 1974, ce qui s'est avéré être la dernière interview publique d'Hannah Arendt.

Il ne faut pas prendre que cette phrase.

hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/on-fak…

Extrait de la dernière interview publique d'Hannah Arendt accordée à Roger Errera en 1974:

Dès lors que nous n'avons plus de presse libre, tout peut arriver. Ce qui permet à une dictature totalitaire ou autre de régner, c'est que les gens ne sont pas informés; comment pouvez-vous avoir une opinion si vous n'êtes pas informé? Si tout le monde vous ment en permanence, la conséquence n'est pas que vous croyez les mensonges, mais plutôt que personne ne croit plus rien. En effet, les mensonges, de par leur nature même, doivent être modifiés, et un gouvernement menteur doit constamment réécrire sa propre histoire. Au bout du compte, on ne reçoit pas qu'un seul mensonge - un mensonge que l'on pourrait ressasser jusqu'à la fin de ses jours - mais un grand nombre de mensonges, selon le vent politique qui souffle. Et un peuple qui ne peut plus rien croire ne peut plus se décider. Il est privé non seulement de sa capacité d'agir, mais aussi de sa capacité de penser et de juger. Et avec un tel peuple, on peut alors faire ce que l'on veut.

Pour être plus précis, puisque cette source soulève une polémique, en octobre 1973, Hannah Arendt a été interviewée par Roger Errera pour l'Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (0.R.T.F.). Enregistrés sur plusieurs jours, ces entretiens ont ensuite été transformés en un reportage télévisé de 50 minutes réalisé par Jean-Claude Lubtchansky pour la série «Un certain regard», diffusé pour la première fois le 6 juillet 1974 (d'où la date de 1974).

Cette émission de 50 minutes correspond au montage final de plus de 8 heures d'échanges avec l'écrivain français Roger Errera. Parmi les nombreux passages coupés à l'époque, certains ont été restitués à l'écrit dans la New York Review du 26 octobre 1978. La citation fait partie des passages retirés par l'ORTF. N'espérez donc pas entendre la citation dans l'émission de 50 minutes disponible sur Youtube.

Cette source est appuyée par les sérieux Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College et New York Review. Wikiquote fait aussi confiance.

web.archive.org/web/2017022220…
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freedom_…
hannaharendt.net/index.php/han… | hannaharendt.net/index.php/han…
les-crises.fr/une-archive-exce…
amazon.com/Thinking-Without-Ba…


|Quand tout le monde vous ment en permanence, le résultat n'est pas que vous croyez ces mensonges mais que plus personne ne croit plus rien.|




Lenin: Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Life is fragile: We live 80 years. But we’re dead after 8 weeks without food, 8 days without water, 8 minutes without air. wordsmith.social/protestation/…




Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. wordsmith.social/protestation/…