Peter Fettner:
CLASS OF 1980
Northside High SchoolClass of 1980
Atlanta, GA
Peter's Story
Peter's schools include Northside High School. Peter works(ed) at Bryn Mawr College, The Field School, Bryn Mawr College.
Peter's interests include Politics. Music Peter likes includes Eno, Roxy Music, Iggy Pop. Books Peter likes include Raheleh Babaei, I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim, The Morrigan. Movies Peter likes include Blue Velvet, The Skin I Live In, AMERICAN RADICAL: the trials of Norman Finkelstein. TV shows Peter likes include Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Stream, Parazitپارازیت.
One of Peter's favorite quotes is:""The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
Erich Fromm, "Escape from Freedom" (Ch. 4)
"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." by John F. Kennedy
"World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom-a progress that we must come to know in its necessity."
G.W.F. Hegel
"If there is no justice,Then those who are deprived may one day take to the streets and rise up." Hafez (Khwaja Shams ad-Din Mohammad of Shiraz), 1320-1389
Now that no one buys our votes,
the public has long since cast off its cares;
the people that once bestowed commands, consulships,
legions, and all else, now meddles no more and
longs eagerly for just two things -- bread and circuses.”
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal)
(c.55-c.128 AD)
Roman satirical poet
c. 100 A.D
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
Michael De Montaigne, Essays (bk. I, ch. XXIV)
Tom Joad: Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one...Expand for more
big soul that belongs to everybody, then...
Ma Joad: Then what, Tom?
Tom Joad: Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
"I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed; and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
James Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson (1791)
"Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel."
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, first American translator of Nietzsche, Critic; Baltimoron
"The flesh is not matter, is not mind, is not substance. To designate it, we should need the old term 'element', in the sense it was used to speak of water, air, earth, and fire...The flesh is in this sense an 'element' of Being."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty,“The Intertwining—The Chiasm,” in The Visible and the Invisible Trans. Alphonso Lingis, (Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1968)".
More about Peter:"Finishing a Ph.D. in philosophy, playing music, becoming angry at political things, and enjoying life's simple pleasures!
Born in NY, lived many places. Accumulation of books.".
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