Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: ownership property weariness fatigue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: war bombs lies earth sun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. In a war such as this, then, what is victory and how will we recognize it? —Al Gore More about this quote Tags: war environmentalism Hitler enemy ally victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The philosopher Diogenes was sitting on a curbstone, eating bread and lentils for his supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils, and you will not have to cultivate the king." —Louis I. Newman More about this quote Tags: philosophy subservience justification flattery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any. —Ruth Wolff More about this quote Tags: morality conscience direction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is one thing to decry the rat race. … That is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further — that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite; it makes the rebuke personal; the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine. —Paul Gruchow More about this quote Tags: morality politeness rat race quitting individualism offense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Right livelihood is not just a philosophical ideal. It is a practical, achievable reality. Finding and maintaining right livelihood does require regular, consistent action, but the steps are clear and the results immediate. —Claude Whitmyer More about this quote Tags: action reality philosophy livelihood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. —Harriet Lerner More about this quote Tags: politics change social change political change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be a consumer is the most primitive level of being. It is to be a mouth, an eater, a devourer of things. To discover the truth of who we are, we must discard the consumer mentality and reclaim our spiritual dignity. —David Frawley More about this quote Tags: spirituality discovery dignity consumer mouth mentality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm what you call a teleological existential atheist. I believe there's an intelligence to the universe with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor intelligence atheism New Jersey Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: delusion progress destruction environmentalism environment restlessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In America the word revolution is used to sell pantyhose. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: USA revolution pantyhose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are usually right. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: history progress wrong right morality change principles majority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the virtue and the pathos of man that he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is his weakness and his tragedy that he does nothing to bring such a world even one step nearer. —Ludwig Lewisohn More about this quote Tags: virtue weakness world tragedy pathos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. —Mary Ellen Kelly More about this quote Tags: perception culture scorn Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email