It Doesn't Have to Be This Way Quotes

“Enough is a decision, not a quantity.”
― Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

“It's so stupid, this idea that land can be owned. Land, which existed long before people... It doesn't belong to us. If anything, the soil owns us. It lets us move around for a bit and then it takes us back.”
― Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

“Capitalism rights? ... Leave people unhappy enough that they want to buy things, but not so unhappy that they opt out.”
― Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

“He has this blissful sense of the way patterns repeat themselves throughout the universe at different scales. A forest on every mossy tree. A supernova in the iris of an eye. To the gods, we’re tiny dust mites on a blue marble in space. To the infinitesimal ecosystems we can barely see, we’re bumbling giants. We’re the gods, and we haven’t yet learned to control our destructive powers.”
― Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have to Be This Way