The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

People are never free of trying to be content.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

If a guy can't even handle my words, I don't think he can handle me as a person.

Why don't we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? ... Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

I have a lot of money.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.

If you hide behind the things you don’t want to talk about then you’re going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.