Chip Giller quotes

“So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!”
-- Chip Giller

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“I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.”
-- Chip Giller

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“What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.”
-- Chip Giller

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“When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.”
-- Chip Giller

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“If I had to choose a single action I guess I would say stop driving.”
-- Chip Giller

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“Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising that we can buy our way to a sustainable future, and I don't think that's the case.”
-- Chip Giller

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“I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.”
-- Chip Giller

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“From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.”

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

Source : Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

“The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.”

“I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.”

“Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.”

Source : "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial". Book by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, 1997.

“The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.”

Source : Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.126, North Atlantic Books

“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”

“I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.”

“Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.”

“Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.”