Externalities Quotes

“Real-life may not always be a symphony of buoyant instants or ecstatic exploits. Downbeat emotional externalities can emerge unpredictably throughout our life journey. If we wish to turn life into an undying dance prom, let’s keep one foot in reality for sure. ("Blind date")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The wonder was, it was there at all. It had been ruined so often, that it was amazing how it had borne so many shocks. Surely there never was such a fragile china-ware as that of which the millers of Coketown were made. Handle them never so lightly, and they fell to pieces with such ease that you might suspect them of having been flawed before. They were ruined, when they were required to send labouring children to school; they were ruined, when inspectors were appointed to look into their works; they were ruined when such inspectors considered it doubtful whether they were quite justified in chopping people up with their machinery; they were utterly undone, when it was hinted that perhaps they need not always make quite so much smoke. Besides Mr Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. It took the form of a threat. Whenever a Coketowner felt he was ill-used -- that is to say, whenever he was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts -- he was sure to come out with the awful menace, that he would 'sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic'. This had terrified the Home Secretary within an inch of his life, on several occasions.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“Somewhere, floating in a muddled abstraction beyond your existence as a generally good person, are the Externalities. Fuck ’em and God Bless ’em.”
― Jeremy Robert Johnson, Skullcrack City

“Machen wir uns nichts vor: In der Externalisierungsgesellschaft gilt die "goldene Regel", zu welche Kants kategorischer Imperativ popularisiert wurde, in pervertierter Form. Was du nicht willst, das man dir tu, das füg halt einem anderen zu - so lautet ihr eherner Grundsatz. Damit verwehrt sie anderen genau das, was ihre Mitglieder als mündige Bürgerinnen grundsätzlich für sich selbst in Anspruch nehmen: als nicht bevormundete, sondern freie und selbstbestimmte Subjekte zu leben.”
― Stephan Lessenich, Neben uns die Sintflut: Die Externalisierungsgesellschaft und ihr Preis

“Driving along the highway from the airport, they had passed mile upon mile of grain elevators, marking the most productive land in Mexico, but when they reached the place where Google Maps said the river should be, there was nothing but a dusty, toxic-looking trickle. The river — that great, fertile river that the first Spaniards had compared to the Nile — had been dammed long ago, diverted by a huge aqueduct to the factories in Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregón, and all that remained in the traditional villages was polluted, unsafe for irrigation or to drink.”
― Anna Hope, The White Rock