Bill McKibben Quote: We're going to need that kind of mov...

We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody's politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.

- Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben Quotes

- Aldous Huxley

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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- Henry Ford

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

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- Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

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- Mae West

Love is the only industry which can’t operate on a five-day week.

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- Groucho Marx

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.