"We have a real role in how our……" — Rebecca Solnit
"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
— Alan Ball
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
— Isaiah Berlin
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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that…
— Buzz Aldrin
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal…
— David Cameron
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What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the…
— Tony Campolo
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
— Deepak Chopra
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
— Deepak Chopra
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