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“what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.”
Source : Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.31, Random House
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“If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.”
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“But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.”
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“There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.”
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“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.”
Source : Julian Beck (1972). “The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People”, Amadeus Press
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“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”
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“In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!”
Source : Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”
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“Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?”
Source : James A. Owen (2015). “Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.672, Simon and Schuster
