If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they reach a huge audience. And they're very uniform. So right wing, I don't think you can even find an analog in your, but they reach a mass audience, and their view is that the corporations are liberal. Their appeal to the population is, "the country is run by liberals, they own the corporations, they run the government, they own the media, and they don't care about us ordinary people."

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.