"Civilization is not and can never be sustainable."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Civilization Quotes

“Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.163, Random House
“When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we donâ€™t understand.”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“Frustration is the mother of risk.”
“The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.”
“Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.”
“MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.”
“Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.”
“More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.”

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