But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

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.

Paint the sky of life with colors that only you can create!

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.

The reward of suffering is experience

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.