As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Money is a mechanism for control.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

I saw you put rice in a toaster once, " said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode.""It was faulty, " Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.

We are insulting God by constantly depending and looking forward for miracles.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.