Top 31 Zerzan Quotes
#1. We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.
John Zerzan
#2. The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
John Zerzan
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.
John Zerzan
#6. All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Horace
#7. People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."
Eve Ensler
#8. Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.
John Zerzan
#9. We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.
John Zerzan
#10. The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.
John Zerzan
#11. Carrying the need to bow down and seek solace at the altar of nature, he had launched the canoe in the darkness. Tonight, his altar was the Alapaha River.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#12. It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
Sachin Tendulkar
#13. "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
#14. And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.
Maximilian Schell
#15. Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
Liev Schreiber
#16. Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
John Zerzan
#17. 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
#18. I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.
John Zerzan
#19. Do you think any of us know what we're doing? Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?
Anonymous
#20. Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Oscar Wilde
#21. I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.
John Zerzan
#22. 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
#23. I put it in my basement in a briefcase where I kept things I wanted no one to find. After a while I forgot the code and couldn't even get back into the briefcase if I wanted to.
Rion Amilcar Scott
#25. I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.
Brian Joyce
#27. 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
#28. Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.
Ezola B. Foster
#29. 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
#30. The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.
John Zerzan
#31. 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
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