Petra Kelly Quotes

#1. An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

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#2. Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

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#3. The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth ...

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#4. Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

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#5. If there is a future, it will be Green.

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#6. Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

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#7. I believe in giving people a second chance.

George Zimmer

#8. to some asshole who has more credit in his pockets than I do? Not going to happen.

D.L. Jackson

#9. He [Sam] wrote it with great flourishes, his hand making many dizzy elliptical journeys before it settled down to make a elaborate 'E' with a curving tail as long as some prehistoric baboons.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#10. We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands.
It is as simple as that.
It is the rich who are making the world poorer.
Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.

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#11. Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

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#12. I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

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#13. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

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#14. Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

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#15. My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

Becky G

#16. Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

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#17. Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

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#18. I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.

Steven Tyler

#19. The state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

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#20. You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.

Alexander Lowen

#21. Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

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#22. Live comedy is fantastic. It's when live comedy is transcribed and reported and critiqued outside of the venue without context that things become complicated.

Michael Che

#23. Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

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#24. We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessness, their privileges and possessions, and join us as active participants and co-workers for peace.

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#25. I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before.

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#26. We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

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