|

|

Advertisements

Murray Bookchin Quotes

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles Picture Quote #1

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont Picture Quote #1

I’m by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier Picture Quote #1

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one Picture Quote #1

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing Picture Quote #1

I’ve had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I’ve never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other Picture Quote #1

Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial ‘solutions’ serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom Picture Quote #1

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution Picture Quote #1

People are never free of trying to be content Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable Picture Quote #1

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology Picture Quote #1

What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual? Picture Quote #1

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things Picture Quote #1

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital Picture Quote #1

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained Picture Quote #1

As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction Picture Quote #1

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking Picture Quote #1

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles (Murray Bookchin Quotes) New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont. (Murray Bookchin Quotes) I’m by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier. (Murray Bookchin Quotes) City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one. (Murray Bookchin Quotes) I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing. (Murray Bookchin Quotes) I’ve had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I’ve never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think. (Murray Bookchin Quotes) I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other (Murray Bookchin Quotes) Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial ‘solutions’ serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes (Murray Bookchin Quotes) 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 (Murray Bookchin Quotes) Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom (Murray Bookchin Quotes) Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution (Murray Bookchin Quotes) People are never free of trying to be content (Murray Bookchin Quotes) If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable (Murray Bookchin Quotes) The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology (Murray Bookchin Quotes) What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual? (Murray Bookchin Quotes) There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things (Murray Bookchin Quotes) The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital (Murray Bookchin Quotes) Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society (Murray Bookchin Quotes) In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained (Murray Bookchin Quotes) As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction (Murray Bookchin Quotes) The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking (Murray Bookchin Quotes)