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Now, one reason why climate stabilisation appears such a frightfully daunting challenge is that no state seems prepared to even float this idea, because capitalist property has the status of the ultimate sacred realm. Who dares to throw it on the scrapheap? What government is willing to send in its forces to ensure the forfeiture of this amount of profit?

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 49)

Thus we find ourselves between two scissor blades: on the one hand, unbending business-as-usual, taking emissions ever higher and confounding hopes for mitigation; on the other, delicate ecosystems crashing down – the extraordinary inertia of the capitalist mode of production meeting the reactivity of the earth.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 47)

'Current investments', the study on coal observes, can be seen 'as an indication that investors do not believe in future climate policy or that they are confident in their own lobbying power.' They still feel that they own the world.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 25)

At what point do we escalate? When do we conclude that the time has come to also try something different? When do we start physically attacking the things that consume our planet and destroy them with our own hands? Is there a good reason we have waited this long?

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 11)

If a pandemic can induce governments to take emergency actions, why can't a climate breakdown that threatens to kill off the very life-support systems of the planet do the same? After this, there can be no more excuses for passivity.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 7)

Wie konnte es sein, dass ich mich an einem Ort so wohl fühlte, der nicht mein Zuhause war?

— Kalt genug für Schnee by Jessica Au (Page 18)

The status quo is not a given. Nor is it a value-neutral solution. It's a choice.

— Movement by Thalia Verkade (Page 243)