You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people without the kinds of instruments he revived. Civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.