22 Quotes by John Zerzan

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

I don’t think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn’t say it’s more important than action. You can’t really separate the two.

There’s a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn’t appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

Republicans don’t want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They’d like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.