"We can either passively continue on the road……" — John Zerzan
"We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?"
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John Zerzan
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11 Quotes by John Zerzan
John Zerzan has 11 quotes on this site.
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If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to…
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Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
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Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing…
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We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom.
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The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
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A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another.…
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We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.
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It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which…
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We don't need more stupid ideas.
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Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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