The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.