Eugene Linden Quotes:

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

source: - Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin

Topics: Lying, Self, Years, Looming

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

source: - Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.111, Penguin

Topics: Taken, Preparation, Matter, Meticulous

In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.

source: - Eugene Linden (1998). “The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability”

Topics: Order, Numbers, People