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<blockquote data-quote="Mr Gibbs" data-source="post: 1291094" data-attributes="member: 17102">There’s a thread for masculine quotes on here but I think it would be a boon to share deeper quotes, phrases, sayings and or poems from some some of the most intelligent men of history that people have found. Ones that we can share amongst ourselves and others. Especially, the buried and obscure.2 from Edward Abbey: “Endless growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”And&quot;It occurs to some of us that perhaps ever-continuing industrial and population growth is not the true road to human happiness, that simple gross quantitative increase of this kind creates only more pain, dislocation, confusion and misery. In which case it might be wise for us as American citizens to consider calling a halt to the mass influx of even more millions of hungry, ignorant, unskilled, and culturally-morally-generically impoverished people. At least until we have brought our own affairs into order. Especially when these uninvited millions bring with them an alien mode of life which—let us be honest about this—is not appealing to the majority of Americans. Why not? Because we prefer democratic government, for one thing; because we still hope for an open, spacious, uncrowded, and beautiful—yes, beautiful!—society, for another. The alternative, in the squalor, cruelty, and corruption of Latin America, is plain for all to see.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mr Gibbs, post: 1291094, member: 17102"] There’s a thread for masculine quotes on here but I think it would be a boon to share deeper quotes, phrases, sayings and or poems from some some of the most intelligent men of history that people have found. Ones that we can share amongst ourselves and others. Especially, the buried and obscure. 2 from Edward Abbey: “Endless growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” And "It occurs to some of us that perhaps ever-continuing industrial and population growth is not the true road to human happiness, that simple gross quantitative increase of this kind creates only more pain, dislocation, confusion and misery. In which case it might be wise for us as American citizens to consider calling a halt to the mass influx of even more millions of hungry, ignorant, unskilled, and culturally-morally-generically impoverished people. At least until we have brought our own affairs into order. Especially when these uninvited millions bring with them an alien mode of life which—let us be honest about this—is not appealing to the majority of Americans. Why not? Because we prefer democratic government, for one thing; because we still hope for an open, spacious, uncrowded, and beautiful—yes, beautiful!—society, for another. The alternative, in the squalor, cruelty, and corruption of Latin America, is plain for all to see." [/QUOTE]

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