Charles Eisenstein Quotes
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are people attracted to narratives of control and fear and hunting down the terrorists, and this uncaring attitude toward nature? These come from what I call the perceptions of separation and the experience of separation, the experience of alienation, the experience of scarcity and anxiety and competition, and a world in which everybody is out for themselves and nobody cares.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
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I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
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Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
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Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.
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I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
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There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.
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You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are people attracted to narratives of control and fear and hunting down the terrorists, and this uncaring attitude toward nature? These come from what I call the perceptions of separation and the experience of separation, the experience of alienation, the experience of scarcity and anxiety and competition, and a world in which everybody is out for themselves and nobody cares.
