Zerzan John Quotes

#1. Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.

Elliott Abrams

#2. I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won't need one. But if you're running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need a little bit of the electrolytes.

Ryan Hall

#3. "The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

John Zerzan

#4. The only characteristic all airliners share is that upon proper urging they are normally capable of leaving the earth's surface.

Ernest K. Gann

#5. The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

John Zerzan

#6. We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

John Zerzan

#7. People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

David E. Kelley

#8. Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

John Zerzan

#9. Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#10. Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

John Zerzan

#11. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

Jack Nicholson

#12. There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

John Zerzan

#13. Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.

John Zerzan

#14. The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

John Zerzan

#15. The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

John Zerzan

#16. Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

Cornel West

#17. To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

#18. I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

John Zerzan

#19. I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?

John Zerzan

#20. The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

John Zerzan

#21. Every decision in life; whether good or bad, teaches us a lesson for the next decisions that we will someday meet again.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#22. It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

John Zerzan

#23. If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .

John Zerzan

#24. Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

Eckhart Tolle

#25. We don't need more stupid ideas.

John Zerzan

#26. To be clear to the scriptures is to be clear to the original plan of creation

Sunday Adelaja

#27. If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

John Zerzan

#28. My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.

Kristina McMorris

#29. I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

John Zerzan

#30. Keep your expectations high,
Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore.

Nikki Rowe

#31. You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Maggie Young

#32. The three phases of Santa belief:
(1) Santa is real.
(2) Santa isn't real.
(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Alton Thompson

#33. I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

John Zerzan

#34. We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

John Zerzan