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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'…
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The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our…
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If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
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Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and…
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An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
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The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
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If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,…
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To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under…
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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…
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Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
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As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will…
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…
— Sigmund Freud
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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is…
— Minna Antrim
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It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compañeros in San Marcos Avilés. The threat is immediate. The Committees…
— Unknown Author
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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
— Emile M. Cioran
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No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy,…
— Germaine Greer
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical…
— Bell Hooks
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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
— Murray Bookchin
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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
— Theodor Adorno
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God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for…
— David Bentley Hart
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