Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

Terence McKenna

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• Capitalism
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• Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Focus

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

  

  Verite
  • Girl
  • Dad
  • Band

• If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Adventure

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Queen

• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Farm

• I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Inspire

• God, who was James Mason, to Noah 'Noah, stop what you're doing and build me an ark!' Noah, who was Sean Connery 'I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • History
  • Universe
  • Identity

• All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Law
  • Christian
  • Military

• We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • Party

• Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• I'm not the kind of writer that goes, 'I'm gonna write a song about sunshine,' or, 'I've just heard a phrase, so I'm gonna write that,' and then I write a song. I'll wait for inspiration to hit, and you can't depend on it.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Sunshine

• I'm not really worried about anybody or anything. I think I have a lot to offer. It's just, with your rookie year, your body, it's just a lot. It may seem foolish, all those dunks and stuff: they look cool, but it takes a toll on your body, for sure.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • May
  • Cool

• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Age

• Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Nice

• Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

  

  Nawang Khechog
  • Happiness
  • Source
  • Forgiving

• And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Sun
  • Heat
  • Brains

• I am not an image. I am a human being.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Humans
  • Human Beings

• I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Service
  • Problems
  • Humans

• Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Humans
  • Sacrifice
  • Capitalism