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

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.

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.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.