38 Quotes by Murray Bookchin

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism – a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.