So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

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.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

It's terrific, Clare, " Henry says, and we stare at each other and I think, "Don't leave me.

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

You can parody almost anything.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.