Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer. —Dorothy Fuldheim More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sir, [the American colonists] are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: crime colonialism convicts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: americans suspicion friendliness foreigners Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They gave him a seashell: "So you'll learn to love the water." They opened a cage and let a bird go free: "So you'll learn to love the air." They gave him a geranium: "So you'll learn to love the earth." And they gave him a little bottle sealed up tight. "Don't ever, ever open it. So you'll learn to love mystery. —Eduardo Galeano More about this quote Tags: love learning mystery earth water air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no reason to repeat bad history. —Eleanor Holmes Norton More about this quote Tags: history bad reason repetition memort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our noses too, and our eyes and ears, are political instruments, protesters. An aesthetic response is a political action. . . . We know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. Standing for these moments — and these moments occur each day, within every airless office building, seated in each crippling chair, inundated by senseless noise and fattened on industrial food — standing for our responses, these aesthetic reverberations of truth in the soul, may be the primary civic act of the citizen, the origin of caution and of the precautionary principle itself, with its warnings to stop, look, and listen. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: truth politics action food control caution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must always be on the lookout for perverse dynamic processes which carry even good things to excess. It is precisely these excesses which become the most evil things in the world. The devil, after all, is a fallen angel. —Kenneth Boulding More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The culture has moved to the point where I find myself in the far left without having gone there. I still feel like I'm putting up my father's old Indiana farmer's values. I think I'm a conservative. I don't think these guys that call themselves "conservatives" really are; these guys are high rollers and plungers and bet-the-farm-on-slender-odds guys; they ain't conservatives. I think a conservative is somebody who cares about conserving the planet and the air and the water and the sky and the sun. It is something mean to say that mankind has fucked up the sunshine. —Stephen Gaskin More about this quote Tags: politics conservation culture conservative sunshine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. —Bob Rubin More about this quote Tags: risk sex condoms Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look twice before you leap. —Charlotte Bronte More about this quote Tags: attention risk certainty looking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves — for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings. —Elizabeth Dodson Gray More about this quote Tags: power danger nature environmentalism mother feminine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She said there were two people you had to be true to — those people who came before you and those people who came after you. —Gayl Jones More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry — between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is accepted as a "trade-off. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Tags: war destruction environmentalism capitalism industry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An epoch will come when people disclaim kinship with us as we disclaim kinship with the monkeys. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating because three hundred people choke to death on food every year. —Dixy Lee Ray former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email