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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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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
— Bono
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.…
— Lynn Margulis
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There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and…
— Catherine Ponder
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I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one…
— Gunter Grass
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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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I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel…
— Mira Nair
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Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one…
— Robert Grudin
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One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is…
— La Monte Young
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If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,…
— Robert Wright
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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably…
— Tom Robbins
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When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is…
— Ruben Papian
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And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to…
— Dave Eggers
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