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JACOB

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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Jul 2

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 25

-Anandamayi Ma

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 25

"As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them."

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 25

“The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky”
-Nina Simone

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 25

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
-Fred Rogers

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 14

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Jan 13

(2/2) “This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 14

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Mar 15

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 14

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Jan 13

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.” (1/2)
-Albert Einstein

The Joy of Life (Matisse)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 14

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Mar 15

“In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere […] in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything […] I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, & we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.”

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 14

“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God.”
-Carl Sagan

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 14

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Mar 16

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free & tear off every yoke?”
-Isaiah 58:6

Christ in the Desert (Kramskoi)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 14

Deus sive Natura

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 13

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Mar 13

“I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.”
-Albert Einstein

Luxe, Calme et Volupté (Matisse)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 12

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JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Mar 13

“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite-that is, a substance consisting of an infinity of attributes, each of which expresses an eternal and infinite essence”
Deus sive Natura
“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”
-Spinoza

The Mulberry Tree (Van Gogh)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 12

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

Office in a Small City (Hopper)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 8

“Behind the ostensible gov’t sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance & acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible gov’t, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today”
-T.R.

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 8

“Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, ‘Main Street, not Wall Street,’ but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.”
-Žižek

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · May 6

“How long will the despots' fury be called justice, and the people's justice barbarism or rebellion?”
-Maximilien Robespierre

The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Apr 7

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
-Oscar Wilde

On the Seashore (Knöchel)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Apr 1

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Kansas City Spirit (Rockwell)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Mar 16

“Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home,to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”
-Isaiah 58:7

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Mar 16

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free & tear off every yoke?”
-Isaiah 58:6

Christ in the Desert (Kramskoi)

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Feb 16

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes”
-Ernest Hemingway

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Feb 16

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
-Benito Mussolini

JACOB @jacobgogue.bsky.social · Jan 5

“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
-Ptolemy

Eve(Hawksley)