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“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ”
― Jim Henson

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
― Ayn Rand

“The world is neither beautiful nor fair. If God exists, he is either deranged or he has a terrible sense of humor. Sara gave purpose”
― Jaka Tomc, 720 Heartbeats

“There were those who suspected that he was not pinned under his wagon but swept out to sea, with the secrets of his life kept forever inside him, like a love note in a bottle, to be found one morning by an unsuspecting couple on a romantic beach stroll.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“The soul was not ready to transcend, but was sent back, given a chance to right a previous generation’s wrong.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Don’t start with the problem, start with the people, start with empathy.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You

“It’s unlikely that health, work, play, and love will divide neatly into four equal parts. But when life is really out of balance, there can be a problem.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You

“Fuck Jesus Christ, he got off easy, an afternoon on the cross, a weekend in hell, and then the hallelujahs of all the legioned angels.”
― David Benioff, The 25th Hour

“Everyone is equally responsible for the shit they bring into the world.”
― David Benioff, The 25th Hour

“I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the most absurd beauty.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“everyone has fear in them somewhere; fear is part of our inheritance.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“Real terror – the genuine belief that your life is about to end violently – erases everything but itself from the brain.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“There is an abyss opening up before us. It challenges everything we thought we knew about our culture and about nature. We need to look into it and concentrate on what we can see. —Paul Kingsnorth”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“It is beyond reasonable doubt that we are at present driving ourselves toward a cliff, maybe one with a fatally larger drop below it than our best current science suggests. We desperately need to slow down. But we show little sign of doing so.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“what does humanism, as an alternative to the old religions, really amount to? The worship, not of God, but of ourselves. And, pretty obviously, given our record, it just isn’t remotely clear that we deserve to be worshipped.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“Technology ought to be our servant, while ethics and these most profound emanations of our collective and individual imaginations ought to be our masters.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“It’s time to leave behind the label of humanism.20”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“We cannot endlessly expand the economy and still be green; it’s oxymoronic”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“it is completely unacceptable for us to conceive of ourselves as having achieved a superior mode of existence to hunter-gatherer and to certain peasant societies.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“we ought to be thinking about how to dismantle the system, much more than about how to ‘share the wealth’.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“I would say that ‘around the world today—because of several centuries of capitalist development—there are literally billions who are poor because there are others who are rich.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“how much ‘First World’ way of living, and in particular our technology, can or should survive the end of this civilisation?”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“Climate disasters or a collapse scenario will blast us out of what Charles Eisenstein calls our story of separation; we will be forced to quit the sad little silos that consumer culture encourages us to ‘live’ within.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“We’re turning the planet—and the future—to junk, and not even making ourselves happy in the process. If we were to learn from the Stoics—or Jesus, or the Buddha, or Lao-Tze—we would understand this, and seek to live simpler, calmer lives, which would actually be highly likely to be happier.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

“We try to fill the hole within us with things. But all that that does is feed a never-ending craving.”
― Rupert Read, This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond