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“Two days after the German occupation, my mother called the pediatrician. "Would you come to see Gabi?" she requested. "He has been crying almost without stop since yesterday morning."
"I'll come, of course," the doctor replied, "but I should tell you: all of my Jewish babies are crying.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trusts have no need to make concessions, when [solar radiation management] is close at hand and the environmental movement is weakened by infighting. The powerful will only concede what is taken from them, and only a broad and radical movement can force such concessions.”
― Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

“The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête.”
― Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

“The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!”
― Karl Marx, The Civil War in France