"What solidarity we do find exists despite the……" — Murray Bookchin
"What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?"
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20 Quotes by Murray Bookchin
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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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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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