"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily……" — Murray Bookchin
"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking."
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20 Quotes by Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin has 20 quotes on this site.
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Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts…
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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 Acid Quotes
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
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Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying…
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Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and…
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do…
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