Hazel Henderson Quotes

#1. Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#2. I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too often serve power and greed, the ambitions of competing nation-states, or the requirements of commerce.

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#3. It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

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#4. Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?...

I'll do macrame, punk

Lucia Berlin

#5. Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

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#6. I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

Kent Beck

#7. I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

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#8. Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.

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#9. Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the imminent passage of a government-distributed "guaranteed income" or "negative income tax."

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#10. Happy and angry. Happily angry. Everything, all at once. That's life, boy. You just keep getting fuller, until you burst and Allah takes you and casts your soul into another life later on. And so everything just keeps getting fuller.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#11. Patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with challenging, alternative views.

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#12. Economics is really politics in disguise.

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#13. Beware the man of a single book.

Thomas Aquinas

#14. I have to believe in myself. I have to be my biggest advocate or I would crumble.

Whitney Port

#15. Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself ... and put one foot in front of the other.

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#16. The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

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#17. Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

William Hazlitt

#18. I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Lord Byron

#19. Economics is a form of brain damage,

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#20. If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

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