The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

There's no point in being committed to a vision if you're not equally committed to making it a reality.

His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.