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- Of course, the person I was fleeing most fearfully was myself, for I drive, and I'm burning a collapsed barn behind the house next week because it is much the cheapest way to deal with it, and I live on about four hundred times the money that Thoreau conclusively proved was enough, so I've done my share to take this independent, eternal world and turn it into a science fair project.
- Bill McKibbon, "The End of Nature"
- A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
- John Berger
- Class is material consumed.
- John Trudell
- One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Newspapers should have no friends.
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- One of the advantages of living alone is that you don't have to wake up in the arms of a loved one.
- Marion Smith
- Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
- Harlan Ellison (1934 - )
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