Jack D. Forbes quotes

Jack D. Forbes quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.”
-- Jack D. Forbes

Source : Jack D. Forbes (2011). “Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism”, p.17, Seven Stories Press

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“Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression.”
-- Jack D. Forbes

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“I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.”
-- Jack D. Forbes

Source : "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism".

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