“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.” WantStatesLawPurposeOrderDiesSocialGoalChangeEconomyInformationPolicySourceEconomicsResponsibleAimInstitutionsAssumingLeavingGravesReformCorporationsNeighborhoodMutualCurrencyIrrelevantManufacturingReformationGarageVinesRenderingPermacultureOpen SourceEconomic Reforms Author:Kevin Carson
“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.” PeopleNeedsHumansSocialJusticeBehindsCasesEconomicMovementBecomingCivilizationConflictEssentialsSocial JusticeMental HealthEnvironmentalLeavingFavorsSustainabilityStableVersusProsperousJoiningHuman CivilizationEnvironmental Health Author:Edward Norton
“One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.” GivingSelfRunningSocialFlowerLeavingVegetablesAcceptableBellsGardeningVisitingDoorstepFauxFaux PasZucchini Author:Barbara Holland
“at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.” MomentsCertainSocialFireFitLeavingProceedingSociability Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.” PeopleKnowsMenSometimesFactsHandsAbleCertainStrongSocialFreedomCommonDemocracyKingsCitizensUltimateMereLeavingChiefsCharacteristicsMonarchyFree ManSocial Control Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake.” SpiritValuesSocialConceptsLeavingComputing Author:Bradley Horowitz