nthposition: How to stop America - George Monbiot's manifesto for a global democratic revolution, not to overthrow globalisation but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle.
Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain - Publisher's site includes a brief biography and interview with the author, George Monbiot, plus an extract from the book and information on how to get involved.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Monbiot, George Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Monbiot, George
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Monbiot, George If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Monbiot, George
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Monbiot, George Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Monbiot, George
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Monbiot, George Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Monbiot, George
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Monbiot, George As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Monbiot, George
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Monbiot, George There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Monbiot, George
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Monbiot, George "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Monbiot, George
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Monbiot, George I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Monbiot, George
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Monbiot, George The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Monbiot, George
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Monbiot, George "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Monbiot, George
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Monbiot, George Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Monbiot, George
