The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Money is a mechanism for control.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Maisie stepped out and moved as if there were gravity. "Are you coming or what?"Rook nodded and hefted Steve with him. "You should consider counseling.""For what?""Your God complex.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?

To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.

I have a lot of confidence in my shot and I'm willing to shoot it no matter what.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.