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Hate Hate

Published by Olly Blackburn

I hate racism. I hate Anti-Semitism. I hate bigotry. It can exist in us all, and it’s part of our basest meanest natures. With this ex-London Mayor racism row, why won’t anyone take the bull by the horns? Why aren’t experts being called in to argue facts? Whatever links there may have been between Zionists […]

Words for the Day… by Eric Hoffer

Published by Olly Blackburn

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. — oh that he were he alive right now

Words for the Day… by Flannery O’Connor

Published by Olly Blackburn

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place… Nothing outside you can give you any place… In yourself right now is all […]

Words for the Day… by Jean-Paul Sartre

Published by Olly Blackburn

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself […]

Words for the Day… by Hippocrates of Cos

Published by Olly Blackburn

It is through error that man tries and rises. It is through tragedy he learns. All the roads of learning begin in darkness and go out into the light.

Words for the Day… by Mary Wollstonecraft

Published by Olly Blackburn

Imagination is the true fire, stolen from heaven, to animate this cold creature of clay, producing all those fine sympathies that lead to rapture, rendering men social by expanding their hearts, instead of leaving them leisure to calculate how many comforts society affords.