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“There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.”

Littles Helping Problem Action Together Lying Three Bits Can Do Environment Movement Little Bit Environmental Collectives Together We Can Collective Action

Author:Clay Shirky

“Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.”

People Littles Persons Pain Lying Bits Little Bit Conscience Capacity Let Me Misery Suits Demon Honorable Love Pain

Book:The Space Between

Source: The Space Between

“The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.”

Littles Lying Bits Terrible Little Bit

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

“Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.”

Ifs Littles Lying Humanity Bits Ability Little Bit Complexity

Author:Ralph Ellison