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"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change...The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful…"

"Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction."

"Clocks are inherently four-dimensional instruments, since the endpoints of their unit distances are events. Measuring rods, on the other hand, are three-dimensional measuring instruments; their end po…"

"Fame factories develop and promote hip icons who exude superior airs."

"First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."

"To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming."

"I could not move or speak for several minutes, frozen in the belief that the book itself had changed and was now writing me."

"The perturbation would come from the privileged classes, he said, because that is the way of revolutions. They are launched by those disenchanted with the culture's ultimate reward system."

"If you're watchin' a parade, make sure you stand in one spot, don't follow it, it never changes. And if the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction, you will fast-forward the parade."

"Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it."

"My ignorant journey had started a change in my thinking. I’d come south unconsciously regarding life as something to be adapted to desire. I disliked the usual way civilization reshapes nature by turn…"

"When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed."

"Jefferson Davis admitted in his statement that the leather thong dipped in salt brine, for the chattel slave, had been exchanged under the wage slave system for the lash of hunger, an empty stomach an…"

"An ill weed grows apace."

"A revolutionary war against a modern metropolitan state can only be fought in hell."

"A self–organizing system acts autonomously, as if the interconnecting components had a single mind. And as these components spontaneously march to the beat of their own drummer, they organize, adapt, …"

"In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of fr…"

"The concept of conservatism cannot easily be described by traditionalistic definitions and refuse to pose as just another 'ism'. The Pope on his return to Rome in 1814 outlawed all street lighting bec…"

"For it is a conspicuous feature of democracy, as it evolves from generation to generation, that it leads people increasingly to take up public positions on the private affairs of others. Wherever peop…"

"Progressive Magazine Transcript of Interview with Roger Ebert"