135 Quotes by Louis Yako

Indeed, the Internet is being run by few moguls that monopolize the online world which is, like the physical world, becoming owned by few actors. In brief, the virtual world is owned by the same few actors who are trying to control and suffocate the physical one, which means that its usefulness as a tool should not be exaggerated or evaluated without taking this factor into serious consideration.

Millions of Americans have quietly and hopelessly concluded that paychecks and the freedom to be creative at American workplaces rarely – if ever – coexist.

Any sensible human being who has traveled a bit around the world knows that freedom is a myth that doesn’t exist anywhere. They would realize that the red lines and different forms of oppression, though change from one place to another, they actually do exist everywhere based on who is in power.

Let’s be resolved to unite humanity in a genuine way, not in the artificial and exploitative way through which globalization-promoters seek to turn this world into one small village for the selected rich and powerful to control and plunder.

Just as in you are what you eat, it is even more precise to say you are what you say, what you read, and what you write.

I hope, wherever we are, we start to decolonize knowledge production through rekindling that deep and strong spark between the heart and the mind; through understanding that the path to objectivity goes through the painful corridors of subjectivity.

With that question, the two of us had a long conversation about whether language is a tool in our hands or we in its hands.

Language is a double-edged sword that can imprison or set us free.

How and why many of us blindly repeat words, idioms, and phrases passed down to us like shabby clothes from our parents or ancestors, without even pondering the exact meaning of what we say.