658 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

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.

The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.