"I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong."

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Source : "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#Thinking Quotes #Flames Quotes #Denial Quotes

“We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.”
“We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.”
“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”
“As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.”
“There's no victory-condition for being human.”
“Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway”
“Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.”
“Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.”

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