"The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere."

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Source : "Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

George Monbiot

#Mean Quotes #Media Quotes #Class Quotes

“Lifeâ€™s a marathon, not a sprint.”
“The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.”
“When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.”

Source : "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.
“Choice, not chance, determines destiny.”
“Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.”
“What I am really saying is that you donâ€™t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”

Source : Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.73, Vintage
“The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.”
“All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.172, Macmillan

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