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

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

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.

Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.

Nothing worthwhile is easy.

As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

I never worry that all hell will break loose. My concern is that only part of hell will break loose and be much harder to detect.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.