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.

- Eugene Linden

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

topic: Lying, Self, Years, Looming

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