Rebecca Solnit Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Commitment, Doors

  "Hope In The Dark". Book by Rebecca Solnit, 2010.

• It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Powerful, War, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

• There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdowns and it would paralyze the state. That was the logic of aerial bombing. In fact, it doesn't happen at all, but the logic behind aerial bombing has never stopped, even though it never demoralizes, terrorizes, or paralyzes a population.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Class, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Threatening Us, People

  "2013 Will Be Year Zero In Our Climate Battle" by Rebecca Solnit, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2012.

• Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Time, War, Fighting

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.53, Granta Books

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