Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

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• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Social
  • Saying
  • Boring

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Up
  • Why
  • Clear

• To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Me
  • Clear

• I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Social
  • Social Life

• I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Alone

• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Social
  • Momentum

• I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Community
  • Social
  • Group

• I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • See
  • Security
  • Social

• This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Clear

• Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Issues
  • Clear

• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Change
  • Social
  • Medicine

• I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Church

• It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Social
  • System
  • Criminal

• Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Achieve
  • Clear

• Social man lives constantly outside himself.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Social

• The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Planning
  • Blame
  • Consequence

• Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Important
  • Helping

• Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Risk
  • Clear
  • Agree

• Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Diplomats
  • Candid
  • WikiLeaks

• For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Important
  • Pain
  • Cry

• Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Song

• The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Social
  • Clear
  • Consequence