"Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit……" — Murray Bookchin
"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 it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth."
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20 Quotes by Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin has 20 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as…
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To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of…
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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…
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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…
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In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond…
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More Anarchy Quotes
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Grown men do not need leaders.
— Edward Abbey
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
— Alan Bennett
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle…
— Aeschylus
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
— Charles Bukowski
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
— Charles Bukowski
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