We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let’s-take-care-of-one-another. That’s the creative challenge.
My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe.
Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.
Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.
Prisons don’t rehabilitate, they don’t punish, they don’t protect, so what the hell do they do?
I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I’m committed to that. But I’m not going to just all of a sudden try to stop the cars of California or to increase dramatically the number of ships carrying oil into the state when we already have our own production.
The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
It doesn’t matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don’t feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
I’d shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
Then once you get people locked up, it’s an incredibly inhuman system.
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.