In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.