Murray Bookchin Quotes

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• Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make…
• The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
• We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our…
• If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
• Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for…
• An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
• The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
• If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of…
• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.…
• I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations…
• Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
• As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist…
• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to…
• Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today…
• Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.
• The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.
• There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within…
• What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the…
• People are never free of trying to be content.
• Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative…

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