Irene Schneider
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“The rich and powerful are going to survive longer, but the effects are very real―and they're getting worse very quickly as more and more people get marginalized because they play no role in profit-making, which is considered the only human value. Well, the environmental problems are simply much more significant in scale than anything else in the past. And there's a fair possibility―certainly a possibility high enough so that no rational person would exclude it―that within a couple hundred years the world's water-level will have risen to the point that most of human life will have been destroyed.”
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“Having too many THINGS," he says, "[Americans] spend their hours and money on the couch searching for a soul. A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and Nature throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.”
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“This I do, being mad:
Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.”
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Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.”
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“For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But the dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”
― Zuleika Dobson
― Zuleika Dobson
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