The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.