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> [Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/each-time-history-repeats-itself-the-price-goes-up/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

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## More by Ronald Wright

> [“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/civilization-is-an-experiment-a-very-recent-way-of-life-in-the-human/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/the-islanders-they-write-carried-out-for-us-the-experiment-of/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/societies-that-do-not-eat-people-are-fascinated-by-those-that-do/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [“Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/hope-like-greed-fuels-the-engine-of-capitalism/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/like-most-problems-with-technology-pollution-is-a-problem-of-scale/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/if-civilization-is-to-survive-it-must-live-on-the-interest-not-the/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/john-steinbeck-once-said-that-socialism-never-took-root-in-america/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [“In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/in-times-of-war-or-crisis-power-is-easily-stolen-from-the-many-by-the/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/each-time-history-repeats-itself-the-price-goes-up/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/like-all-creatures-humans-have-made-their-way-in-the-world-by-trial/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/america-seemed-a-virgin-land-waiting-for-civilization-but-europe-had/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [ “Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. \[…\] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/soon-after-man-shows-up-in-new-lands-the-big-game-starts-to-go/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/even-today-some-opt-for-the-comforts-of-mystification-preferring-to/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

> [“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress has challenged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/our-practical-faith-in-progress-has-ramified-and-hardened-into-an/)

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> [“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this process, let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/though-we-became-experimental-creatures-of-our-own-devising-it-s/)

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