Our very act of purchasing is doing something to someone to whom we are connected.

I would rather choose to highlight something that is really important like young children being bombed to death every day. Think of Syria, think of the terrible things going on in the world at the moment and we are sitting talking about a shoulder barge. (more…)

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

If they indoctrinate you, so that their interests become your desires, that is the worst kind of slavery.

Every year we raise and eat 65 billion animals, that's nine animals for every person on the globe, and it's having a major impact on our planet.

Everytime you purchase a vegan product or eat in a more ethical way, you are voting with your money and creating a market that encourages more food makers to utilise compassionate or non-animal farming.

What we (progressives) have got on our side is positivity and excitement and humane values. I refuse to give that up.

We need to widen our concept of what economic development is far beyond growth alone. We need to think about investing in the human wealth that sustains us, the natural wealth and the social wealth, because it's from these that everything that we generate in our economy flows.

Everybody can effectively vote with their wallets, young and old, and I think it's the most important thing we can all do.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

We must give a message of hope, we must say another world is possible. When there is despair, the people from the far right take advantage. We must say that another world is possible and necessary.

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

But what is radical? We are in a strange situation where defending democracy and human rights becomes radical.

I'm very critical of political parties. I don't think they're needed in the world as it is now. They impede the development of individuals, they encroach on creativity and they impose absurd structures of discipline.

Promoting "normality" is a political choice that serves the powerful, while leaving the rest of us (i.e. "good citizens") dissatisfied and insecure ... Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out one country at which humanity is always landing. And when humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.

I'd rather try and fail than do nothing. It's about making change, it's not about ego.

As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.

Britain can go down one of two routes now. One is to a future based on renewables, alongside greater investment in energy efficiency, where local communities have much greater say how their power is provided. The other is to a future based on polluting fossil fuels.

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

A person of good intelligence and sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

The localisation movement is growing. At the heart of this movement is a very broad and very powerful local food movement that is gaining momentum around the world, accompanied by local business alliances, local energy, decentralised renewable energy systems and local finance.

Participatory democracy (Spain 1936-38) was a "strange and valuable" experience where one could "breathe the air of equality" and where normal human motives like snobbishness, greed, and fear of authority had ceased to exist.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. (more…)

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

We are social animals and it is in our own interest, if we want to live a happy life, to think of the rest of humanity.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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It always seems impossible until it is done. (more…)

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. (more…)

The way in which this country has sided with the City of London against British manufacturing since the 1950s has had very serious implications with the economy of this country. You've actually screwed industry in order to keep financiers happy. Any sensible person right now would join an anti-capitalist organisation.

The challenge is to move as fast as possible to renewable energy and away from fossil fuels. The future is now. Is there really still a climate change debate going on? That was so 2004, it’s time to get on with it and focus on implementing the solutions. There is no need for discussion anymore, renewables are the future, it’s inevitable.