George Monbiot Quotes

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

Technology is like the 666 because it controls us.

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Power is like a drug. The more you use it, the larger doses you need.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

In Dubai, we spend too much of our lives in cars; we shouldn't be wasting it in something boring, but rather enjoy every minute in something we love and appreciate.

I grew up in L.A., and it's one of those cities designed around cars instead of the people that live there. I spent hours every day stuck in traffic, having the experience of looking around and seeing one person in every car.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

All people are enslaved by something.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.