We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

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.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.