"In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again."

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Source : Bill McKibben (2008). “The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life”, p.171, Macmillan

Bill McKibben

#Our Society Quotes #Limits Quotes #Facts Quotes

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal”
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
“People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.”
“The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.”
“The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.”
“We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we go.”

Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”
“If you own this story you get to write the ending.”
“Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.”

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