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This is Civilization?
The great lie is that it is civilization. It’s not civilized. It has been literally the most bloodthirsty brutalizing system ever imposed on this planet. That is not civilization. That’s the great lie, that it represents civilization.
— John Trudell
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If you cannot feel that the earth is your grandmother, then of course you will find it easy to rape her…
— Russell Means
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I never imagined the great struggle of our age would be between those who are empathetic and those who are sociopathic.
— From Keith Rose
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Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard for social consequences.
— David Harvey
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
— Anaïs Nin
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We’re still trying to figure out how to love. Is that why our civilization is so destructive? Is it possible to become more “humane” or is humanity…
