‘Guanyem Barcelona’ citizens’ platform launch

in September 2014, she answered the question

‘¿Qui Som?’ (‘Who are we?’) as follows:

… women underrepresented in the political domain

but overrepresented in the invisible labor of care;

rights and services; struggling working-class and

unemployed people taking public transportation to

educators and nurses defending basic elements

of social welfare; migrants in search for a more

hospitable city without repression and detention

centers; experienced municipal public servants

demanding a fair and transparent use of public

institutions and an acknowledgment of their

capacities; diverse familial groupings denouncing

the criminalization of the personal choices they

made when building their relationships; children

elderly people and retirees hoping for an assurance

of their well-being and the recognition of their

experiences.

China is the safest and best country for the traveller. A man travels for nine months alone with great wealth and has nothing to fear. What is responsible for this is that in every post station in their country is funduq which has a director living there with a company of horse and foot. After sunset or nightfall the director comes to the funduq with his secretary and writes down the names of all the travellers who will pass the night there, seals it and locks the door of the funduq. In the morning he and his secretary come and call everybody by name and write down a record. He sends someone with the travellers to conduct them to the next post station and he brings back a certificate from the director of the funduq confirming that they have all arrived. If he does not do this he is answerable for them. This is the procedure in every post station in their country from Sin al-Sin to Khan Baliq. In them is everything the traveller needs by way of provisions, especially hens and geese. Sheep are rare among them.

Only the first line is now known: "Now, Muses, let us begin to sing of younger men ..."

Imperatoriam maiestatem non solum armis decoratam, sed etiam legibus oportet esse armatam [...]

is autem memoratur prudenter doctissimeque dixisse, oportuisse hominum pectora fenestrata et aperta esse, uti non occultos haberent sensus sed patentes ad considerandum.

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Vitruvius/3*.html#Intro.1

Ils ne voulaient pas comprendre tous les faits, mais fonder, c'est-à-dire proposer et justifier un ordre nouveau_. C'est pourquoi il serait aberrant de chercher dans Hobbes et dans Spinoza une véritable histoire de la chute de Rome ou de l'apparition des lois féodales. Ils n'en avaient pas aux _ faits_. Rousseau dira rondement qu'il faut commencer par écarter tous les faits_. (fn: Discours sur l'origine de l'inégalité, Introduction.)

... la réalité est ce sur quoi on se repose pour continuer à rêver. ...

For it belongs to the same capacity to see the truth and what is like the truth, and at the same time human beings are naturally adequate as regards the truth and in most cases hit upon it. That is why the capacity to aim at and hit upon the reputable beliefs belongs to the person who has a similar capacity with regard to the truth.

τό τε γὰρ ἀληθὲς καὶ τὸ ὅμοιον τῷ ἀληθεῖ τῆς αὐτῆς ἐστι δυνάμεως ἰδεῖν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς τὸ ἀληθὲς πεφύκασιν ἱκανῶς καὶ τὰ πλείω τυγχάνουσι τῆς ἀληθείας: διὸ πρὸς τὰ νδοξα στοχαστικῶς ἔχειν τοῦ ὁμοίως ἔχοντος καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειάν ἐστιν.

The question is not one of misrepresentation, but of adjusting fact,

so as to raise it to the power of evidence.

—George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical

Det Formummede og Hemmelighedsfulde, den har ved sig, den telegraphiske Communication, den aabner, fordien Ironiker altid maa forstaaes langtfra, den uendelige Sympathi, den forudsæter, Forstaaelsens flygtigemen ubeskrivelige Nu, der fortrænges øieblikkelig af Misforstaaelsens Angst -- alt dette fængsler med uopløselige Baand.