"This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own."

-- Riane Eisler

#Lying Quotes #Loss Quotes #Men Quotes

“I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.”
“It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.”
“The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.”
“I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite terms, and of its habit of earthly common sense. I find this country writing an excellent corrective of the urban vocabulary of abstractions and of the emotion disguised as thinking which abstractions and humbug have loosed upon the world. May there always be such things as a door, a milk pail, and a loaf of bread, and words to do them honor.”
“Iâ€™ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.”
“When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.”
“In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.”
“Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to them that we are willing to live lives which are less dependent on fossil fuels and we'll show you that now by changing our individual life to some extent but we want you to take action, political leaders, so that we aren't living in a society in which we're dependent on poisoning the future in order to maintain present lifestyles.”

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