"The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Events Quotes #Stories Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.”
“The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.”
“...it is fairly well agreed that the surface temperature will rise about 1°C as a modest response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 if the rest of the component processes of the climate system remain independent of this response.”
“One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.”
“There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am...”

Source : Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions
“Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.”
“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”
“"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.”

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