There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.