"Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth."

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Source : "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.

Murray Bookchin

#Breathing Quotes #Growth Quotes #Green Quotes

“The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.”

Source : Bomb Magazine, Summer 1998.
“Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.”
“What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.”
“I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.”
“Aim high, work hard, and love your family.”
“In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise. All the bands were different, and all the sounds were different. The common denominator was that it was all very young kids doing it, and doing it on their terms. But then it became, 'You should listen to this and you should wear this uniform, and you shouldn't do this or that.' It was supposed to be about not having rules, but every generation of music gets watered down.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.”
“He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.”

Source : John Kirk, Susanna Wesley (1864). “The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography”, p.268

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