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George Monbiot has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and…
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…
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Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears…
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Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating…
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest…
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When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be…
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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million…
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if…
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Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
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If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity…
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The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,…
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The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are…
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Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that…
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The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the…
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We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs,…
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... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some…
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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we…
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When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith…
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I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the…
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Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was…
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I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew…
— Chely Wright
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In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement…
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I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has…
— Al Franken
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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