By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

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

But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: 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.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.