Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

All writers are propagandists.