Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

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.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black.

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

It's more important to be read than paid.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.