The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.