An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.
Petra KellyMilitarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.
Petra KellyUranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.
Petra KellyPractically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.
Petra KellyA truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
Petra Kelly