“Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.” ValuesSocialConsequenceRegardPursueBehaveCapitalistExploitationExpansion Author:David Harvey
“Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.” SubjectsConsequenceGoldEmbraceSizeEnormousPursueFearlessThinkerDiamondScarce Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.” FeelsLongPastDesireTurnsBornTakenEnvironmentGenerationsChildhoodEventsDramaDemandConsequenceLaborEternityPursueProvidenceRippleResonanceSpunHeredityWrong TurnRoad Not TakenHeredity And Environment Author:William Faulkner
“No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.” EarthCultureTermAttitudeBehaviorConsequenceCrisisWestPursueAtmosphereContradictionUsualSurreal Author:Terence McKenna