The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

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.

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.

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.

Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself.

Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better.

Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage

There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised

Only by first acknowledging that we are living beings together here on this planet before labeling ourselves as anything else can we hope for peace on Earth.