Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

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

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

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.

Ooh..I want one" - BexThey're not puppies." -Cammie

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

When you meet new people and you notice they gossip about people behind their backs just imagine what they say about you behind yours.

I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after