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.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

We need American Muslims to be part of our eyes and ears on our front lines.

We didn't get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you.

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.