Charles Eisenstein Quotes

When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.

Charles Eisenstein

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• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

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• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

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• Someone has to stand up for wimps.

  

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• I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

  

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• In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  

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• There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

  

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• When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

  

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• I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

  

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• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

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• The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.

  

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• I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

  

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• When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Political
  • Crazy
  • Rebellion