Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

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