Kalle Lasn Quotes

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.