"Nobody ever voted for austerity" - Monbiot
"Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied." Aristotle
"Don't look at the laserbeam with your remaining eye." William F Hagen
"Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough." E.F.Schumacher in "Small is beautiful"
"If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?" E.F. Schumacher in "Small is beautiful"
"Animal behavior can be deduced by careful observation and explained by evolution theory. By carefully observing terriers, we can deduce that they were selected to creep into burrows. By carefully observing people, we can deduce they were selected to believe in virtually anything" Jay Hanson
"Love consists in overestimating the difference between one woman and another." G.B. Shaw
“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter" Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1954.
"We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death." Ted Trainer in Imperatives for a transition to a sustainable and just society
".... it is impossible for any man to contribute to the social system the physical equivalent of what it costs the system to maintain him from birth till death - and the higher the physical standard of living the greater is this discrepancy. This is because man is an engine operating under the limitations of the same physical laws as any other engine. The energy that it takes to operate him is several times as much as any amount of work he can possibly perform. If, in addition to his food, he receives also the products of modern industry, this is due to the fact that material and energy resources happen to be available and, as compared with any contribution he can make, constitute a free gift from heaven. " - Robert L. Hickerson in "Hubbert's Prescription for Survival, A Steady State Economy"
"If you think you are saying No to war for oil, have you really done so if you have not said No to cars?" Jan Lunberg (Culture Change e-letter #89)
"... the rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction, ... " Marx and Engels, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, 1850.
"If the Buddhas come, slay the Buddhas. If the Demons come, slay the Demons." anon
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on." -- George W. Bush
"Older Whisky, Younger Women, Faster Horses" - Jay Hanson
"Do I LOOK like a fucking "people" person?" - anon
"Tis with our judgements as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own." - Alexander Pope
"In waking a tiger, use a long stick." Mao Zedung
"The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. " Mao Zedung
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. " Mao Tse-Tung
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato -(429-347 BC)
"The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names." Chinese proverb
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw
"The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help," Donald Rumsfeld, Xmas 2005.
"The American way of life is not negotiable." President George H.W. Bush at the Earth Summit, 1992
"We should not make the mistake, as many have made, of imagining that a choice has to be made between economic growth and greenhouse gas emission reduction. That is a choice that our societies will not make. Our societies require of us that we find solutions to these issues that maintain the momentum of economic growth." - John Howard, after the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Partnership summit, 12 January 2006
"There are 10 types of people in the world – those that understand binary and those who don't. " - anon
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy" - Spike Milligan
"Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." Albert Einstein
"criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation" - Howard Scott
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country" - Bertrand Russell, attributed
"Patriotism is the belief your country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
"Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water; After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water" - Wu Li
"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." - Bertrand Russell
"Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man." - Daniel Quinn
"I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.": Simon Hoggart
"Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force." - President Carter, 1980
"Never believe anything until it's officially denied." - Claud Cockburn
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir Lenin
"You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal." -- John De Armond
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke
"No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the façade of democratic institutions." - Murray B. Levin
"Everything Marx said about communism was false, but everything he said about capitalism was true" - Russian proverb
Dave Kimble April 2005
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