The easiest way to control or eliminate competitors is not to bestthem in the marketplace, but to use the power of government to exclude them from the marketplace. If you wish to control commerce, banking,transportation, and natural resources on a national level, you must control the federal government. If you and your clique wish toestablish worldwide monopolies, you must control a World Government.  TheRockefellers are not humanitarians; they are power-seeking Machiavellians. They are using. their phony philanthropy as a guise forseizing power on a magnitude that would make old John D. Sr. proud." � Gary Allen

"Wars are in the nature of imperialism and we must press home thisreality - to defeat war it is necessary to defeat capitalism." - Matt Siegfried

"The fate of Central Asia in the twenty-first century will beardirectly on the global balance of power, not just because of the region's vast energy reserves -- considered second only to the PersianGulf -- but also because Central Asia geographically connects China, Russia and Iran, three countries destined to remain central to U.S.foreign policy concerns in the decades ahead." - Alidad Mafinezam

"Policymakers are interested in control over the flow of oil and oilprofits.  Because the United States won�t talk openly about plans for the future of Iraq�s oil, most of the world is skeptical of U.S.arguments about Iraq�s weapons of mass destruction, terrorist ties and human-rights violations." - Robert Jensen

"Because of 9-11, it has had to act forcefully on the world stageand assert American power. But that should have been all the more reasonto adopt a posture of consultation and cooperation while doing what needed to be done. The point is to scare our enemies, not terrify therest of the world." - Fareed Zakaria

"The competition for power and influence in the region, much ofwhich is currently focused on the routing of pipelines and the establishment of spheres of influence in resource-rich regions, willhave broad and lasting implications for the balance of power in much of Asia." - Mehmet �g�t��

"With media manipulation and perception management at work, thosewho cannot see reality are also unable to hear correctly, therefore falling prey to the demagogical spells, sophistries, and pandering ofany powers that be.  Deeper comprehension or cognition is required for sharper discernment." - Mary Louise

"The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president whenit comes to foreign policy?' - George W. Bush

"There was no need for a smoking gun because the nation with thebiggest guns in the world had made it clear that it needs no evidence - smoking, smoldering, or even completely cold - to take the world towar." - Robert Jensen

"Once can never infer the rule systems from a study of the formsalone." - Abelson

"The ruined lives of the many underlie the profit and the power ofthe few." - Matt Siegfried

"In terms of scale, the climate change issue will make any sort ofenvironmental liability lawsuit filed in national or international courts to date seem like tarts and gingerbread." - Mike Romoth

"We will then agonise over more than two decades of folly and thelost opportunities for a more energy-sustainable path. Life will be much  harder in the 21 st century as a consequence." - Brain J.Fleay

"A sustainable energy policy must be based upon a dramatic reductionin the use of fossil fuels and a search for alternative, renewable energy sources such as solar energy, wind and wave power.  Theseare by their very nature sustainable and can be treated as 'income' rather than 'natural capital'." - Andrew Heywood

"Economic growth is linked directly to energy consumption and higheremissions of greenhouse gases. Compliance with Kyoto would entail substantial shifts in the largest national economies, with the U.S.taking the biggest hit of all as the biggest polluter of all." - Mike Romoth

"Western techno-industrial, urban society will self-destructproducing massive environmental damage, social chaos and megadeath." - Joseph Wayne Smith

"The declining authority of state is reflected in a growingdiffusion of authority to other institutions and associations, and to local and regional bodies, and in a growing symmetry between the largerstates with structural power and weaker ones without." - Susan Strange

"There is a maximum level of satisfaction of basic somatic needs,beyond which more food, clothing, housing, health care rapidly become counterproductive." - Johan Galtung

"Unless the individual's survival and development needs areacknowledged, and the structures and social environment tailored to serve those needs, instead of vice versa, violence in one form oranother will remain endemic to the society and possibly even escalate tothe point of societal collapse." - Ralph Summy

 "The most important freedom of speech is the freedom to speakabout freedoms." - Howard Rheingold

"We won't say it's a conspiracy that all the great offices of stateare occupied by gas and oil people --the President, the Vice-President, National Security Adviser --it's not a coincidence." - Gore Vidal

"Continuing to defend the freedom to pollute will ultimately lead toruin for all." - Garrett Hardin

"You feel better when you're doing something you feel is right - nomatter how hard it is." - Ramsey Clark

"Independent estimates suggest by the beginning of 2000 India mayhave accumulated enough weapon-grade plutonium for between 50 and 100 nuclear weapons.  An independent estimate suggests Pakistan mayhave produced enough highly enriched uranium for between 30 and 50 weapons by early 2000." - David Albright

"Far fewer people are aware of the threat of energy depletion orother approaching crises. When thinking of these crises, they tend to view them as still far off in the distant future." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"As he held fast to the trembling Earth his eyes fell from the sky,and all about him, all at once, was disaster. Piles of garbage reached to the skies, forests lay cut and dying, coastlines flooded, and stormsgrew more violent and thunderous." - Stalking Wolf

"First, they seek to scare Saddam Hussein into voluntarily turninghis country over to the U.S. and choosing safe exile or, failing that, they want to convince the Iraqi people that it�s safer to attempthis overthrow or assassination than to endure an invasion by American  ground troops. Second, they are trying to convince everyother nation on the planet that the United States is the Mother of All Rogue States, run by mad thugs in possession of 15,000 nuclear warheadsthey are willing to use and spending, as they already are, more on death-making capacity than all the other countries on the planetcombined." - John Perry Barlow

"But the Standard Oil/Bush imperialists probably won't concernthemselves with the threat of China in the Middle East. They will likelytry to seize control of all of Iraq's, Syria's, and Iran's oil. Enter phase two of the war on terrorism: invading countries that Bush saysharbor terrorists, with the real intent to seize those countries' energysources." - Norman D. Livergood

"Turing shows that if a computer can add, subtract, multiply, anddivide, and if it can tell the difference between zero and one, it can do anything. You can take that set of mindless abilities and build themup into structures of indefinite discriminative power, indefinite discerning power, indefinite reflective power. You can make a wholemind; you can solve Hume's problem; you can get ideas to think for themselves on this slender base. That's the idea of an algorithm." -Daniel Dennett

"We can build a sustainable civilization based on true democracy andequality, or we can continue allowing our greed to govern us to the bitter end. The United States, as the only remaining superpower, hasthe lead in choosing which of these paths to follow." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"The study of the knowledge in a mental system tends toward bothnaturalism and phenomenology. The mind needs to represent what is out there in the real word, and it needs to manipulate it for particularpurposes. But the world is messy, and purposes are manifold. Models of mind, therefore, can become garrulous and intractable as they becomemore and more realistic. If one's emphasis is on science more than on cognition, however, the canons of hard science dictate a strategy ofthe isolation of idealized subsystems which can be modeled with elegantproductive formalisms." - Abelson

"Be exactly wrong, rather than approximately right." - John Turkey

"What we must aim for is not growth, but negative growth or economicand demographic contraction." -  E. Goldsmith

"In a so-called "free society" such as ours, individuals will tendto self-select positions within the system where they can maximize inclusive fitness. For example, "election by popularity contest" willtend to elect those who are the best liars and the least realistic." - Jay Hanson

"Until either the direct use of solar energy becomes a generalconvenience or controlled fusion is achieved, all waste of energy - by overheating, overcooling, overspeeding, overlighting, etc. - should becarefully avoided, and if necessary, strictly regulated." - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

"The stationary state economy is a necessity." - Herman E. Daly

"Instead of continuing to be opportunistic in the highest degree andconcentrating our research toward finding more economically efficient ways of tapping mineral energies - all in finite supply and all heavypollutants - we should direct all our efforts toward improving the direct uses of solar energy -- the only clean and essentially unlimitedsource." - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

"War is a male reproductive strategy. All that is needed for thestrategy to evolve, is that aggressors fight and win more often than they lose." - Michael P. Ghiglieri

"Oil has literally made foreign and security policy for decades.Just since the turn of this century, it has provoked the division of theMiddle East after World War I; aroused Germany and Japan to extend theirtentacles beyond their borders; the Arab Oil Embargo; Iran versus Iraq; the Gulf War. This is all clear." - Bill Richardson

"The Easter Islanders, aware that they were almost completelyisolated from the rest of the world, must surely have realized that their very existence depended on the limited resources of a smallisland. After all, it was small enough for them to walk round the entireisland in a day or so and see for themselves what was happening to the forests. Yet they were unable to devise a system that allowed them tofind the right balance with their environment." - Clive Ponting

"The struggle for life is a struggle for free energy available forwork." - Boltzman

"Systems that prevail (successful systems) are systems that evolveto maximize their use of the energy and material resources available to them." - Lotka

"The deeper problem is the nearly complete collapse of prevailingeconomic theory so complete, so pervasive, that the profession can only deny it by refusing to discuss theoretical questions." J.K. Galbraith

"The expansion of the human enterprise necessarily depletes nature."- William Rees

"All species expand as much as resources allow and predators,parasites, and physical conditions permit. When a species is introduced into a new habitat with abundant resources that accumulated before itsarrival, the population expands rapidly until all the resources are usedup. In wine making, for example, a population of yeast cells in freshly-pressed grape juice grows exponentially until nutrients areexhausted -- or waste products become toxic." - David Price

"Industry and government are ignoring the glaring contradictionbetween the science of climate change and the policy of fossil fuel expansion." - David Suzuki

"Consumers should reeducate themselves to despise fashion.Manufacturers will then have to focus on durability." - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

"The human mind evolved to believe in gods... Acceptance of thesupernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to science which wasdeveloped as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms." - E.O. Wilson

"The military-industrial complex has begun building a space-basedweapons system, the ultimate purpose of which is to make automated war from the skies possible against any target on the planet, independentof conventional military force." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt butit has always been nothing more than politics in disguise. Economics is a form of brain damage." - Hazel Henderson

"War's most common cause, the Embers found, was fear of deprivation.The victors in the wars they studied almost always took territory, food,and/or other critical resources from their enemies. Moreover, unpredictable disasters-droughts, blights, floods, and freezes -- whichled to severe hardships, spurred more wars than did chronic shortages." - Michael P. Ghiglieri

"Why didn�t they look around, realize what they were doing, and stopbefore it was too late? What were they thinking when they cut down the last palm tree?" - Jared Diamond

"Today carbon dioxide concentrations are 23 per cent higher than atany time over the past 420,000 years." - David Suzuki

"Religion is the opposite of science." - Jay Hansen

"We must take into account that evolution does not consist of alinear repetition, even though over short intervals it may fool us into the contrary belief." - David R. Klein

"A sect with a creed and a political program naturally presents manyaspects and calls for interpretative analysis from many standpoints other than ours." - Joseph Schumpeter

"Trying to sustain the academic distance built into our traditionalscholarly or popularising forms of publication can result in a greater loss of control than participating fully in these new forms ofcommunication and conversation." - Jill Walker

"That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gildedindex of far-reaching ruin." - John Ruskin

"Of all things knowledge is that which should be most freely shared,because in sharing it is multiplied rather than divided." - Herman E. Daly

"Society and humanity can no longer be separated from naturalevolution and that the kind of society we achieve will either foster thedevelopment of first nature or damage the planet beyond repair." - Murray Bookchin

"Power brokers are concerned with their own ends, never mind thecosts.." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"You will search in vain in the texts and journals of any of themajor schools of psychology, for any theory or research concerning the most basic fact of human existence: the fact of our relationship to thenatural world of which we are a part." - Metzner

"The question is not �Can they reason?� nor �Can they talk?� but �Can they suffer?" - Bentham

"Digital technology is the universal solvent of intellectualproperty rights." - John Parmenter

"To destroy such a large chunk of the living ecosystem when we donot properly understand how it all works is like pulling apart the control system of a modern aircraft while in mid-flight." - JamesLovelock

"It is not wealth that stands in the way of liberation but theattachment to wealth, not the enjoyment of pleasurable things but the craving for them." - Fritz Schumacher

"Sometimes there is deliberate and intended destruction, theforeseen cost of ruthless consumption, but more usually, degradation occurs by mistake, the unwitting result of other smallerdecisions.  Small individual decisions add up inexorably to large, collective ones, and no one is counting.  Market forces are atwork." - Michael Jacobs

"While the US and Russia (which inherited the Soviet arsenal)currently have a nuclear stockpile of about 10,500 and 20,000 warheads respectively, the smaller nuclear weapons states each have a fewhundred; Britain has 185 nuclear warheads, France has 450 and China is estimated to have 400." - Zia Mian

"The optimal scale of the macroeconomy relative to its containingecosystem is the critical issue to which macroeconomics has been blind. This blindness to the costs of growth in scale is largely a consequenceof ignoring throughput, and has led to the problem of ecological unsustainability." - Herman E. Daly

"Mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry -- they all started outin philosophy, and when they got clear they were kicked out of the nest." - Daniel Dennett

"The world can probably support between one and four billion peopleat the absolute outside without a fossil-fuel energy subsidy.  By the time we run out of this fossil fuel energy subsidy, there will be10 to 20 billion people in the world." - Kenneth Watt

"Eco-scientists, like the farmer, have the better informed point ofview. They understand all too well that "business as usual," celebrated by the cornucopians, is undermining the physical-biotic structure thatsupports that business, and that the more our industrial "business as usual" continues as it has, the less likely it is that we will be ableto continue." - Ernest Partridge

"A competitive spiral of loophole discovery and closure unfolds,with complexity continuously increasing." - Olson

"The cluster of transformations labeled global change dwarfs allprevious experiences in its speed. in the geographical scale of its consequences, and in the numbers of people who will be affected." -Norgaard

"It could be a brigadier who decides whether to start a nuclear warin South Asia." - Pervez Hoodbhoy

"Cutting greenhouse gases is as optional as breathing." - AndrewSimms

"The nature of the conflict between India and Pakistan may be onewhere nuclear weapons are in the theatre of a conventional conflict." - Zia Mian

"Industrial Civilization, began in 1930 and is predicted to end onor before the year 2030." - Richard C. Duncan

"George W.�s own past contains a number of questionable andunethical business practices and a callous disregard for the poor and the working class. George W. has the mentality of an eight year old andthe perspective of a privileged child who believes that wealth should control society and that the acquisition of wealth is the onlynecessary basis for a free society." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"The belief that formal semantic analysis will prove central to thestudy of human cognition suffers from the touching self-delusion that which is elegant must perforce be true and general." - Abelson

"We shall in time grow to be very much one people, unless a returnto barbarism throws us again into chaos." - Washington Irving

"The fifth revolution will come when we have spent the stores ofcoal and oil that have been accumulating in the earth during hundreds ofmillions of years." - Charles Galton Darwin

"If we are unable to identify reality and therefore unable to actupon what we see, then we are not simply childish but have reduced ourselves to figures of fun - ridiculous figures of our unconscious." -J. Ralston Saul

"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to eachother, and especially to ourselves the lies act as barriers to truth. These barriers are necessary because without them many deplorable actswould become impossibilities." - D. Jensen

"Man will become better only when you make him see what he is like."- Anton Chekhov

"Perhaps the destiny of man is to have a short but fiery, exciting,and extravagant life rather than a long, uneventful, and vegetative existence. Let other species -- the amoebas, for example -- which haveno spiritual ambitions inherit an earth still bathed in plenty of sunshine." - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

"We'll conserve energy when we choose to turn off the lights as weleave the room -- when we choose to recycle bottles and ride the bus. Itis you and I who'll save ourselves. It's never been anyone else -- not our government, not the collective. You and I will save the world - butonly when we realize how badly we want to save it." - John H. Lienhard

"Relying on oil means living on our capital and not on theinterest." - Ravaioli

"The alternative is the "soft landing" that many people hope for - avoluntary change to solar energy and green fuels, energy-conserving technologies, and less overall consumption. This is a utopianalternative that will come about only if severe, prolonged hardship in industrial nations makes it attractive, and if economic growth andconsumerism can be removed from the realm of ideology."  � Joseph A. Tainter

"When economic growth becomes physically impossible - as it must -societies will disintegrate into anarchy and war, as individuals and groups seek advantage." - Jay Hanson

"Illth accumulates as pollution at the output end of the throughput,and as depletion at the input end." - Herman E. Daly

"It may prove impossible for even a few survivors to subsist on themeagre resources left in civilisation's wake." - David Price

"Denial by opponents of human ecology seems to be a way of copingwith an insufferable contradiction between past convictions and present circumstances, a defense against intolerable anomalous information." -William R. Catton, Jr.

"A gap opens up between the need for oil and the reduced quantityactually flowing. Prices are set by the marginal barrel of oil sold to amarket which cannot get enough." - David Fleming

"There are neither purely empirical consideration, nor a proiriconstraints that in themselves commit us to any general solution of genesis issues." - Heyd

"Whoever controls the oil production of the Middle East and CaspianSea regions will control the world." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"When the stockpile runs out, the once-thriving population findsitself in dire straits." - William R. Catton, Jr.

"Shared knowledge increases the productivity of all labor, capital,and resources. International development aid should consist far more of freely shared knowledge, and far less of foreign investment andinterest-bearing loans." - Herman E. Daly

"Significant environmental and health costs associated with airpollution are paid by society instead of the utility." - David Suzuki

"What can be done to mitigate the coming nightmare? I propose thatwe retire "avarice" as our central organizing principle and replace it with a less deadly Deadly Sin: "sloth". I believe the "Society ofSloth" would be a splendid 21st century replacement for the Society ofAvarice." - Jay Hanson

"My sense is that the trajectory of philosophy is to work on veryfundamental questions that haven't yet been turned into scientific questions. Once you get really clear about what the questions are, andwhat would count as an answer, that's science." - Daniel Dennett

"The transition to decline is a period of great tension whenpriorities shift to self-sufficiency and sustainability. It may end up abetter world, freed from the widespread gross excesses of today." - Colin J.Campbell

"Capital promotes activities from which its owners can reap enormousprofits. It does not matter if those activities are detrimental to living beings or communities. For example, those in power seem to havean unlimited imagination for conjuring up new excuses to throw money at the military. I was saddened by the almost pathetic naivete of thepeople of this country some ten years ago, when we were talking about reaping a peace dividend." - Ramsey Clark

"There appears to be a relationship between the self-regulatoryability of animal populations and the relative stability of the environments within which they have evolved." - David R. Klein

"Societies everywhere will soon be shaking down to a less structuredand resource-consuming scale as high-quality energy and other resources diminish." - Brian J. Fleay

"The laws expressing the relations between energy and matternecessarily come first, in the whole record of human experience and theycontrol, in the last resort, the rise and fall of political systems, thefreedom and bondage of nations, the movement of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty and the general welfare of the race."- Sir William Soddy

"The first fossil fuel is going over the hill." - Brian J. Fleay

"The greater the taxation shift towards environmentally degradingactivities, the more radical the ecological restructuring of the economyis likely to be." - Robyn Eckersley

"If you want affluence, prepare for war."- Ted Trainer

"The Roman Empire provides history's best-documented example of howincreasing complexity to resolve problems leads to higher costs, diminishing returns, alienation of a support population, economicweakness and collapse." - Joseph A. Tainter

"The new human species, homo ecophagus, is a ubiquitous, predatory,omniecophagic species that is a maligant epiecopathologic process engaged in the conversion of all plantetary material into human biomassor its support system with coincident terminal derangement of the globalecosystem." - Hern

"Any damaging effects of climatic change would be unnoticeable amidthe enormous habitat destruction in modern times caused by development, pollution and other human activities." - Terry Root

"The cause of our present sickness is our modern technologicalcivilisation and its underlying ideologies." - Sheldrake

"More wealth is surely better than less, up to a point." - Herman E.Daly

"The global temperature is accelerating. This increase isunprecedented in the 1,000-year record that includes ice core sampling, seabed mud and tree ring samples." -  Kenneth Davidson

"In general the prospects are bleak.  A combination ofunfavourable circumstances could all too easily lead to the classic symptoms of disruption within and between countries andsocieties.  Conflict, famine, disease and breakdown are not uncommon in history,and could creep upon us as they have crept on others, lurching from crisisto crisis until they become unmanageable." - Tickell

"Blogs mean that the universe of permissible opinions will expand,unconstrained by the prejudices, tastes or interests of the old media elite." - Andrew Sullivan

"The political support for free trade and market economies is now sogreat that it has margalised all left-wing thinking, including green-tinged left-wing thought." - North

"At present (but not for long), it would be feisible to construct aninternational resolve to preserve space as the Antartica of tomorrow's world, free from weapons and territorial claims." - David Baker

"I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speakout always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged." - John J. Chapman

"Wealth becomes reflected more by what a person is able to sharethan in possessions.  One consequence is that neoclassical economictheories emphasis on contractual relationships and individuals property rights is becoming less relevant." - Brian J. Fleay

"There are no fixed human characteristics, except for a generalcapability to choose what we want to be, to modify ourselves in accordance with our desires." - Francis Fukuyama

"The likelihood must be that the laissez-faire regime will not bereformed. Instead it will fracture and fragment, as mounting scarcities of resources and conflicts of interest among the world�s great powersmake international cooperation ever more difficult. A deepening international anarchy is the human prospect." - John Gray

"Whoever controls space controls the world." - David Baker

"We are a privileged generation that will witness within a decadethe shrinking of its present wealth and mobility.  We must have thecourage now to explore new ways of living whereby we can all live well, but consume less." - Brian  J. Fleay

"Transmission capacity is approximately doubling each year, which isa much faster rate of improvement than Moore's Law for semiconductors." - Andrew Odlyzko

"To try to understand cognition by a formal analysis of languageseems to me like trying to understand baseball by an analysis of the physics of what happens when an idealized bat strikes an idealized baseball." - Abelson

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men ofintemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." - William R. Catton, Jr.

"Widespread connection to the Internet is thus likely to increasethe citizen's ability to opt out of regulatory regimes in certain limited types of commerce." - Michael Froomkin

"Proprietary software means, fundamentally, that you don't controlwhat it does; you can't study the source code, or change it." - Richard Stallman

"If a species can prove their worth through their contributions toagriculture, technology and other down-to-earth activities, they can stake a strong claim to survival in a crowded world." - Norman Myers

"If we do not bring down these growth curves deliberately, then Ican assure you that in the lifetimes of our children they will come downanyway." - David Suzuki

"The optimum method of eliminating an incoming missile is to cutit's path short a minute or two after launch." - David Baker

"That's one of the great beauties of nature, it takes mistakes andturns them into useful features." - Sejnowski

"Abandoning any traditional practice requires a political upsetthough revolution may be too strong a word." - Garrett Hardin

"Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are." - HarryFrankfurt

"Teaching human nature to someone is something like teaching a dognot to bark." - Jay Hanson

"Human affairs are now dominated by an idealogy of blind reason,which seperates the exercise from the memory of the past events and experiments, and above all from values - ethical and moralconsiderations that arise from complex organic relationships among ourselves and with nature." - J. R. Saul

"The media wallow in the violence journalism unwilling and incapableof entering that which spells peace journalism." - Johan Galtung

"Australia�s car dependent cities also face challenges, but not asgreat as those facing its farmers, and both will be competing for a rapidly shrinking oil supply." - Brian J. Fleay

"Today, as a result of exploration, speed, and the explosion ofscientific knowledge, Earth has become a tiny sphere, closed, limited, crowded, and hurtling through space to unknown destinations." - KennethE. Boulding

"The Internet's ability to make everyone with access a secretpublisher and a secret reader spells the end of censorship for any government that permits widespread access to the Internet." - MichaelFroomkin

"The implications of the decline of the world�s premier energy termsmean for politicians it is easier not to know." - C.J.Campbell

"A species that has come to depend on complex technologies tomediate its relationship with the environment may not long survive theirloss." - David Price

"A claim for equity on the basis of conventional development issimply not credible." - Wolfgang Sachs

"The stakes involved in the debate over climate change do not comeany higher. The largest industries of humankind, energy and transportation, are directly implicated." - Mike Romoth

"The economy is incredibly inefficient at delivering needs topeople." - Jay Hanson

"Unquestionably, all around the globe there is a growing sense ofunease, an undercurrent of uncertainty, a feeling that it is all runningout of control." - I. O. Angell

"The deeper you can manipulate living structures the more you cancontrol food and medicine." - Vandana Shiva

"Except for religious conflicts and the petty wars of feudal lords,wars are primarily fought over resources and trade." - J.W. Smith

"We need bottom up democracy. We need small-scale economies, andsmall-scale technologies powered by renewable energy. We need smaller communities, structured to be self-sufficient, all tied together byhigh speed monorails. We need gardens and parks in our cities instead ofcars. We need social halls, not shopping malls. And we have enough energy remaining to do this, if we act now." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"Live life simply so that others may simply live." - Gandhi

"We should not despair if the old institutions and power structuresseem formidable and all powerful; they are not.  Never have they been under such powerful challenges." - Brian J. Fleay

"An America that could join the world like one nation and stateamong others, equal before the law, equal to each other, facing the problems of the world." - Johan Galtung

"They are sweeping away old moribund institutions, not in anarchyand chaos, but with new ideas, new moralities, new rituals and new powerstructures." - I. O. Angell

"From the day fission was discovered in 1938, the problem ofcontrolling this technology has been of central importance to the human race." - Carey Sublette

"The rate of consumption of almost all resources, particularlyenergy, is increasing every year. The increase in resource consumption is caused by three factors: population growth, a demand for an increasein per capita consumption of a resource to increase living standards, and a larger number of uses found for a given resource. Oil is theclassic example which illustrates increased demand from all three causes." - Walter L. Youngquist

"Maintaining maximum biological diversity assumes far greaterurgency as the world becomes increasingly threatened by rapid climatic change. The loss of each additional species reduces the options fornature and people to respond to changing conditions." - Jeffrey McNeely

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmedby menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken

"The crucial variable for any society is the strength of its basicresearch and sciences and technological resources - its universities, research labs and capacity for development." - Daniel Bell

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity." - Hegel

"Energy is the lifeblood of the world's economy, the underlyingmeans by which modern societies function." - James J. MacKenzie

"There is creation with diversity, where the value is actually inthe difference between ideas, in the variety of knowledge." - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"If men were angels, no Government would be necessary." - JamesMadison

"It is time to give that world a name; socialism, and in the face ofstill another American war set about, urgently, to change this world. For the common, rational, and shared utilization of what nature,finitely, has endowed the planet, that is, for socialism." - Matt Siegfried

"As society and the problems that face it become more and morecomplex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply becausemachine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones." - Bill Joy

"Reason can be the one and only means of determining a course ofaction; knowledge forms a single system and can be deduced; everything ultimately is explicable. Rationalism advances a primary commitment toreason, as opposed to faith or dogma or any other source of irrational conviction. " - Jon Katz

"We are evaporating our coal mines into the air." - Svante Arrhenius

"One cannot wish away elementary thermodynamics, basic geophysics,fundamental biology, or essential fluid
dynamics." - Mike Romoth

"Free speech is a free gift." - Richard Barbrook

"There are no quick solutions to the energy supply andinfrastructure challenge facing the U.S. specifically and the global marketplace generally." - Murray L. Weidenbaum

"There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop somerationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

"The 'cliff' is the third and final interval in the Olduvai schema.It begins with the 7th event in 2012  when an epidemic of permanentblackouts spreads worldwide, i.e. first there are waves of brownouts andtemporary blackouts, then finally the electric power networks themselvesexpire. This is the so-named Olduvai "trigger event" when all the vital C3 (communication, computation, and control) functions die." - Richard C. Duncan

 "It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe thatthe knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity, and that you are using it tohelp in the spread of knowledge and are willing to take the consequences." - Oppenheimer

"As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, hecould realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source of inputs and an infinite cesspool for outputs." - Kenneth E. Boulding

"Current concern is not with the natural variations of Earth'sclimate, but a possible antropogenic change that could be unprecedent inits rapid onset, making adaption far many plant and animal species, humans included, difficult or impossible." - Kris M. Wilson

"Assuring sustainability by extending the modem agenda will require,by several orders of magnitude, more data collection, interpretation, planning, political decision-making, and bureaucratic control." - Norgaard

"Energy laws will force us to continuously reduce our aggregatefootprint whether we choose to or not." - Jay Hanson

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask whythe poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara

"Peace is itself a vision to be imaged, far beyond data to bestudied." - Johan Galtung

"The good thing about reputations is that you still have them eventhough you traded them in. Have your cake and eat it too!" - Linus Torvolds

"The problem for the years ahead is to work out an acceptable theoryof weighting. Synergistic effects, nonlinear variation, and difficultiesin discounting the future make the intellectual problem difficult, but not (in principle) insoluble." - Garrett Hardin

"We have the the opportunity to become the first people in historyto understand how a society's problem-solving abilities change. To know that this is possible yet not to act upon it would be a great failureof the practical application of ecological economics." - Joseph A. Tainter

"Those among the elite tend to be self-centered and power hungry;this is how they reached their current position. The elite intend to maintain their position as king of the mountain even as the mountaincrumbles beneath their feet." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"The leading influence on the national and world energy diet will bethe daily routines of the great population concentrations." - Jesse H. Ausubel

"Information, unlike anything else known to humans, can bereplicated indefinitely." - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"Codifying of western ethics dates from the same time when myths andlegends handed down orally for millennia were compiled into the familiarform of the Old Testament by Ezra the scribe." - Brian J. Fleay

"What passes for optimism is most often the effect of anintellectual error." - Raymond Aron

"There will be no apologizing to the grandchildren or turning back.No amount of money will prove sufficient.  No amount of spin doctoring will be able to stem the mounting losses. Issues of liabilitywill become moot as the planetwide catastrophe gathers steam." - Mike Romoth

"It is stressed that we are not about to run out of oil, havingabout as much left as we have used already, but production is about to peak, if it has not done so already." - C.J.Campbell

"Every mental experience correlates with a strictly correspondingmicro-level physiological processing." - Valery Kourinsky

"Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to changewithout notice." - Will Durant

"The Net offers what Paine and his revolutionary colleagues hopedfor - a vast, diverse, passionate, global means of transmitting ideas and opening minds." - Jon Katz

"Our affluence, technology, and extraordinary period of maturationcombine to obscure and delay but do not avert negative feedback from theenvironment." - William R. Catton, Jr.

"The politically conscious individual is the person who questionsthe ability of the social structure to satisfy his own needs and those of the larger group with which he identifies, and wants changes of thestructure.  Personal satisfaction, 'success', is not enough." - Johan Galtung

"We are all condemned to silence - unless we create our own relationwith the world and try to tie other people into the meaning we thus create." - Jacques Attali

"For many counties the nation state is becoming too big for thesmall problems of life and too small for the big problems of life." - Daniel Bell

"Without the loudspeaker, we would never have conquered Germany." -Adolf Hitler

"Value lies in the willingness of people to consume a good, and thispotentially exists in anything that people can produce and pass on." - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally,life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by,dressed up as, faith in another or better life." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Mental maps evolve with the revolution in transportation andtransmission. The faster I can go to the end of the world, the faster I come back, the more my mental map of the world becomes reduced tonothing.  Our understanding of the vastness of the earth is our freedom. To know that the world around us is vast, to be aware of thisfact is one element in our freedom and our greatness as humans." - P. Virilio

"Consumers everywhere will feel the peaking of global oilproduction. In particular, peaking will register with the developers, manufacturers, and owners of motor vehicles, since nearly all vehiclestoday are powered by petroleum products." - James J. MacKenzie

"Nationalism, ethnicity, 'race' and religous differences are used asmarker within states to keep people out or lock them in, generating social relations which have their own histories and presences of power,priviledge and penalty." - Jan Jindy Pettman

"In a space ship there are no sewers." - Kenneth E. Boulding

"The fuel cell is as big a change from the internal combustionengine as the internal combustion engine was from the horse." - Lawrence Burns

"Modernity is the broad common theme that runs through a set ofdiverse discursive practises which, superseding and intersecting with each other, have come to constitute our collective consciousness." -Roland Bleiker

"But while replication in a computer or a computer network can be anuisance, at worst it disables a machine or takes down a network or network service. Uncontrolled self-replication in these newertechnologies runs a much greater risk: a risk of substantial damage in the physical world." - Bill Joy

"Life is understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." - SorenKierkegaard

"Just as the enjoyment of music no longer passes through exchange orstock-piling, the enjoyment of production is exterior to its insertion in a market or system of allocation." - Jacques Attali

"A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a changeonly in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality." -Garrett Hardin

"No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence,policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, whichmight make sense, but to their anxieties.'' - Paul Goodman

"All dominating elites and rulers of government depend for theirsources of power upon the cooperation of the population and of the institutions of the society they would rule." - Gene Sharp

"The world is my country and doing good is my religion." - Tom Paine

"They believe that the path to Armageddon lies through theresurrection of the Jewish state in Palestine, the destruction of the most holy Moslem site in Jerusalem and the raising upon its ashes of anew temple of God, and finally a holy war of worldwide nuclear destruction.  This they believe will usher in the rebirth ofChrist, and the ascension of all of his true followers into heaven. As for the rest of us and the planet; well, God simply doesn�t favor us."- Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"Young people have the least to gain by continuation of our presenthigh-energy consumption system and most to lose if we fail to change in time." - Brian J. Fleay

"The trouble with out times is that the future is not what it usedto be." - Paul Valery

"Arrested judgements may be sustained artificially. In such way thedashline of development vector is generated. The elements of zombi-effect happen to be here and there." - Valery Kourinsky

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he whohelps to perpetrate it.  He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King

"Making Linux freely available is the single best decision I've evermade." - Linus Torvad

"Problems in human relationships require solution, not suppression."- John Burton

"It can be shown that the money which finances the neoliberaleconomy is in fact drug money." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"What is now proved was once only imagined." - William Blake

"I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of thefurther perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to thenation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals." - Bill Joy

"The expression of opinion presupposes its perception by anotherperson." - Valery Kourinsky

"Direct violence is an event; structural violence is a process withups and downs;cultural violence is an invariant, a permanence remaining essentially the same for long periods, given the slow transformationsof basic culture." - Johan Galtung

"The stable high-level technology will have to rely on the oceansand the atmosphere as a basic resource from which materials may be concentrated in sufficient quantity to overcome their diffusion throughconsumption. Even this, of course, will require constant inputs of energy. There is no way for the closed system to prevent the increaseof entropy." - Kenneth E. Boulding

"There are many subtle and inconspicuous ways, in which people canharm each other psychologically, socially, and economically even though they are not actually engaged in acts of violence in the usual sense ofthis term." - Conrad G. Brunk

"Because governments own roads that they finance with tax dollars,they normally do not charge tolls. The government makes roads into a commons. The result is congestion." - Garrett Hardin

"Natural resource scarcity reduces the material content of thelifestyles of wage earner and stockholder alike, but not evenly." - Brian J. Fleay

"Because every population is part of what we have since learned tocall an ecosystem, when a particular species is "fortunate" enough to expand its numbers phenomenally, catastrophic reduction of otherspecies populations must result." - William R. Catton, Jr.

"Natural gas is also a source of greenhouse gas emissions, althougheach unit of energy produced by oil yields, on average, about one-third more co2 than gas, and coal about two-thirds more." - Jesse H. Ausubel

"Far from being displaced by the digital Panopticon, the�intellectual commons� of the Net continues to expand at an exponential rate." - Richard Barbrook

"As global order disintegrates, self-sufficiency at the local levelmay become a priority for survival. " - Colin J.Campbell

"The people running the traditional media are in a state of nearpanic at this competition, at the fragmentation of an audience they oncemonopolized." - Jon Katz

"The task of the social scientist is to make society transparent, toreveal how it works so that no group has knowledge of the trappings and workings of society unknown to other groups." - Johan Galtung

"Capitalism is incompatible with energy laws and can never besustainable." - Jay Hanson

"Any policy that valoures the usage of objects instead of the meansof producing them retards composition." - Jacques Attali

"Environments are continuously constructed and deconstructed inendless processes of simulation." - Joost van Loon

"The contradiction that lies at the heart of the political economyof intellectual property is between the low to non-existent marginal cost of reproduction of knowledge and its treatment as scarceproperty." - Christopher May

"Freed from the shackles of a decadent morality and religioussuperstition, they must proceed to build a society without God - a society based on naturalistic principles and the assertion of the willto power." - Ronald H. Nash

"Just as the Middle Eastern countries can expect problems becausetheir population will surpass their ability to care for them, so will the rest of the world. The entire civilization is apt to break downchaotically, in ways that no one can foresee." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"It would be possible to write a history of the inventions, madesince 1830, for the sole purpose of supplying capital with weapons against the revolts of the working class." - Karl Marx

"Ultimately, the direction of history is not reducible to emergingproductive forces, conveniently mapped out by historical materialism, but is contested and resolved in struggles between social actors. Inthis struggle the hacker movement is important, I stress, because they can challenge capital's domination over technological development." -Johan S�derberg

"A very large proportion of the world's population depends for foodfrom high agricultural yields achieved by the use of fossil fuel." - Brian J. Fleay

"If capitalism is ever superseded, it will be because the era ofconverting natural resources into income flows becomes impossible to continue without threatening the existence of humankind. Socialism canbe understood as the need to adapt society to this changed reality through a reorganization, rather than further pursuit of the olddevices of technology and increased throughput capitalism, the era of toolbuilding, and when they have become sufficient, the era of social innovation." - Matt Siegfried

"Threats of violence are also violence." - Johan Galtung

"That in the contemporary world mankind can neither live happilywithin modern civilization nor return to pre-modern culture, and is therefore destined to suffer from ever-more ambiguous problems ofidentity, is the essence of inter-civilizational clash." - Seizaburo Sato

"Nanotechnology has clear military and terrorist uses, and you neednot be suicidal to release a massively destructive nanotechnological device - such devices can be built to be selectively destructive,affecting, for example, only a certain geographical area or a group of people who are genetically distinct." - Bill Joy

"Interests, both material and ideal, not ideas, dominate directlythe actions of men. Yet the "images of the world" created by these ideashave very often served as switches determining the tracks on which the dynamism of interests kept actions moving." - Max Weber

"Unlike the "real world", where things tend to have a value, asexpressed in a price-tag, that is sluggish in response to change and relatively static across its individual consumers, on the Neteverything is under constant re-evaluation." - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes hedischarges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them. Since this is true for everyone, we arelocked into a system of "fouling our own nest," so long as we behave only as independent, rational, free enterprisers." - Garrett Hardin

"In a matter of days, Congress was presented with terror legislationwhich would negate much of the Bill of Rights.  Within a month, theUnited States was prepared to launch a military campaign against one of the poorest countries in the world.  In the months since 9-11, theUS has directed its War on Terrorism against several countries, most of which hold major oil and natural gas resources, or are strategicallylocated along energy supply routes.  On top of this, we have an attempted coup in Venezuela with clear ties to Bush administrationofficials." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon ofthe enemy." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"A profound mutation, delocalised and diffuse, that fundamentallychanges the code of social reproduction, thus leading to a radical challenge to the somber power of the managers of repetition." - JacquesAttali

"We cannot have cowboys and Indians, for instance, in a space ship,or even a cowboy ethic. We cannot afford unrestrained conflict, and we almost certainly cannot afford national sovereignty in an unrestrictedsense." - Kenneth E. Boulding

"Relying on destructive violence to control political power isregarded by theorists of nonviolent action as being just as irrational as attempting to use a lid to control steam from a caldron whileallowing a fire under it to blaze uncontrolled." - Gene Sharp

"The energy industry may become like a black hole sucking the restof the economy into it." - Brian J. Fleay

"He who abuses you so has only two eyes, has but two hands, onebody, and has naught but what has the least man of the great and infinite number of your cities, except for the advantage you give himto destroy you." - Etienne de La Boetie
 

"Intelligence always moves to the fringes of the network." - MichaelLewis

"Differences in perceptions of the political or social environmentthat would be expected given social or cultural differences among viewers disappear in the wake of heavy television consumption." -Matthew Robert Kerbel

"Only a love which makes no distinction will save the world." -Meh-ti

"Scientists began to become human; no longer Gods." - Brian J. Fleay

"Any philanthropy which based its action upon the merits of thepeople it helped would be doomed in advance, starting from a false premise and ending in failure." - Jean Pictet

"The Internet has, in fact, redefined citizenship as well ascommunications. It is the first worldwide medium in which people can communicate so directly, so quickly, so personally, and so reliably. Inwhich they can form distant but diverse and cohesive communities, send, receive, and store vastamounts of textual and graphic information, skipwithout paperwork or permission across borders. Where computers are plentiful, digital communications are nearly uncensorable. This realitygives our moral and media guardians fits; they still tend to portray thecomputer culture as an out-of-control menace harboring perverts, hackers, pornographers, and thieves." - Jon Katz

"I bitterly hate cruelty as the worst of all vices." - Montaigne

"A healthy military apparatus requires regularly 'exercise' bywhatever rationale seems expedient, to prevent its atrophy." - Leonard C. Lewin

"For most of the human race political history has been a record ofthe triumph of mystification over strategies to maximise well-being." - Murray J. Edelman

"Internet inscribes the new social figure of the cyborg andinstitutes a communicative practice of self-constitution, the political as we have known it is reconfigured." - Mark Poster

"One can discern the search for transcendence even in concernsaround ecological issues and environmental protection where at least some of the discourse is comprised of elements of nature mysticism." -Sudhir Kakar

"If a sufficient number of people put in free goods, the cooking potclones them for everyone, so that everyone gets far more value than was put in." - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"Although every society contains sociopaths and others whosadistically enjoy killing, it is seldom such persons who are involved in the deliberate public events that we associate with terrorism." -Mark Juergensmeyer

"The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system atthe time it is performed." - J. Fletcher

"The Kyoto agreement was formulated based on a fundamental tenet ofdemocratic public law, the concept of the
commons property belonging in equal measure to all citizens for alltime. Leadership on this issue must value the hard commitments required of democratic thinking, and not simply trot out the term to justify thecurrent mania for saber rattling." - Mike Romoth

"Prime consideration must be given to the environmental and resourceconstraints that together limit the scale and scope of economic activity." - Brian J. Fleay

"There must, for instance, be machinery for controlling the totalnumbers of the population; there must be machinery for controlling conflict processes and for preventing perverse social dynamic processesof escalation and inflation." - Kenneth E. Boulding

"Just as an alchemist cannot make gold from lead, the net cannotmake a polity from narrative because the ongoing message threads do little more than sum up discussion, they do not provide participation,reflection and critical debate." - Steven Jones

"At the dawn of societies, men saw their passage on Earth as nothingmore than a labyrinth of pain, at the end of which stood a door leading,via their death, to the company of gods and to eternity. With the Hebrews and then the Greeks, some men dared free themselves fromtheological demands and dream of an ideal City where liberty would flourish. Others, noting the evolution of the market society,understood that the liberty of some would entail the alienation of others, andthey sought equality." - Jacques Attali

"Like money, reputation is a currency, that is, a proxy, whichgreases the wheels of the economy." - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"This is the first moment in the history of our planet when anyspecies, by its own voluntary actions, has become a danger to itself - as well as to vast numbers of others. " - Bill Joy

"Optimizing the outcome for a subsystem will in general not optimizethe outcome for the system as a whole. This intrinsic difficulty may degenerate into the "tragedy of the commons": the exhaustion of sharedresources because of competition between the subsystems." - Francis Heylighen

"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this countrythe notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts arecharged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even inthe face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest." - Robert Heinlein

"You cannot understand a system until you try to change it" - Lewin

"We are situated between the private experiences of computer cultureand the public structures of multinational power, between the proximate communitities of everyday life and the everywhere communities ofpopular culture, haunted by the echoes of our-pre-industrial past, mesmerisedby the images of our post-industrial future" - John Pauly

"Security is never black and white and context matters more thantechnology." - Bruce Schneier

"Roving bands of men will hunt and kill other men for food, andwater will always be scarce, getting scarcer with each passing year." - Stalking Wolf

"Large cities, of course, will be the most dangerous places toreside when the electric grids permanently fail. There are millions of people densely packed in high-rise buildings, surrounded byacres-and-acres of blacktop and concrete: no electricity, no work, and no food. Thus the urban areas will rapidly depopulate when the electricgrids die. Specifically: The big cities stand out as bright yellow-orange dots on NASA's satellite mosaics of the earth at night.These planetary lights blare out "Beware," "Warning," and "Danger." The likes of Los Angeles and Chicago and Baltimore-to-Boston, London andParis and Brussels-to-Berlin, Bombay and Hong Kong and Osaka-to-Tokyo are all unsustainable hot spots." - Richard C. Duncan

"A people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselveswith the power knowledge gives." � James Madison

"We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging,concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves." -  Friedrich Nietzsche

"One must be optimistic as a basis for making an effort. Butoptimism should be tempered with facts. The media and government leadersshould try to learn the facts, and then have the courage to state them. Campaigns for public office should not lead the citizenry into falsehopes. As civilization proceeds, it will be much more convenient and less disruptive to be pleasantly surprised along the way thanunpleasantly surprised. Myths must be replaced by reality on which intelligent decisions are made." - Walter L. Youngquist

"The general effect, then, is for capitalist modernization to bevery much about speed-up and acceleration in the pace of economic processes and, hence, in social life." - D. Harvey

"Thinking about the future is thinking about technology." - MichaelLewis

"The smaller scale an action, the greater its chances of success.This is part of the appeal of both anarchism and Buddhism: both promote the proliferation of small scale action to affect major change." - DaleAllen Pfeiffer

"Over time, the equal distribution of property rights in the airabove our heads will mean the biggest economic and geo-political realignment of recent history." - Andrew Simms

"Only a human being can recognize the meaning that separatesinformation from data." - John Perry Barlow

"The limited high-quality petroleum fuels remaining are criticalover the next two decades for successful reconstruction of a sustainablefarming environment that can survive, first with limited use of oil and ultimately with none." - Brian J. Fleay

"The correlation between the size of the global economy, measured byworld industrial product, and carbon dioxide emissions is astoundingly high, practically total correlation�. - Alberto di Fazio

"Human was the music, natural was the static." - John Updike

"The wartime economy of Britain, and other states, showed that wheregovernment and people unite in the perception of a shared crisis, radical changes in lifestyle are possible." - Andrew Simms

"The spittle of toads never reaches the light of the stars." - Jeande la Fontaine

"A producer of original, consistent content clearly differs from theconsumer, who is the client in a continuing relationship. " - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"The New York Kehillah is the largest and most powerful union ofJews in the world, the center of Jewish world power has been transferredto that city." - Henry Ford

"The result of a mathematical development should be continouslychecked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behaviour." - Harvey J. Gold

"Consistent use of dissociative strategies will maintain a feudalsocial order, very high on rack concordance and on rack dependent interaction, with a very low level of political consciousness except atthe top, combined wth an element of terror to prevent idealogies fram arising, to incapacitate leaders, to keep the order so stable thatthere shall be no demand for further changes and to keep incidents understrict control." - Johan Galtung

"When societies develop outside the law, they develop their ownunwritten codes, practices, and ethical systems." - John Perry Barlow

"This is the dualism of purpose: we must be subjective of thepresent while objective of the future." - Dale Allen Pfeiffer

"There is no systematic method of data collection and processing,and the theory of social dynamics is still in its first infancy." - Kenneth E. Boulding

"The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and roboticsare almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed. Ideas can't be put back in a box; unlike uranium or plutonium, they don't need to be minedand refined, and they can be freely copied. Once they are out, they are out." - Bill Joy

"But while you do nothing, the future of creativity and innovationis sold in DC - typically to the highest, and most disgusting bidder." -Lawrence Lessig

"In a free society, freedom includes the right to discriminate - tomake judgments about people and to act on those judgments.  Ideally, no one would ever act out of bigotry or ignorance.  Butjust as freedom of speech encompasses the right to say things that are foolish or unfair, freedom of association must encompass the right tomake decisions about other people for foolish or unfair reasons." - JeffJacoby, B

"Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitablypartial." - Thomas S. Kuhn

"What suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. Whatsuffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, andcelebrity-focused." - Laurie Garrett

"No social arrangements, whether laws, institutions, customs orethical codes, can provide permanent protection against technology." -  Unabomber

"Declining oil will force structural changes that both reduce ourenergy use and the size and availability of our highly networked and extensive transport systems." - Brian J. Fleay

"Economic liberalism is the free fox in the free chickencoop." -August Bebel

'I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creaturesor has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I--nor would I want to--conceive of an individual that survives hisphysical death.  Let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egotism, cherish such thoughts." - Carl Sagan

"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuinghis own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons" -  Gerrat Hardin

"Technology has advanced simultaneously, so that as the volume ofintellectual property increased, so did the ease of replicating it at a small, and decreasing, cost." - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"Nothing meaningful exists outside of discourse and without languagemeaning could not be exchanged." - Stuart Hall

"As long as the organisation of work continues to be based onverical division of labour splitting human society, whether that societyrefers to itself as feudal, capitilist or socialist, the result will still be a tendency towards integration at the top and disintegrationat the bottom." - Johan Galtung

"Just as there is no measurement of sexual love, of friendship andsympathy, and of esthetic enjoyment, so there is no measurement of the value of commodities." - Ludwig von Mises

"To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to otherthings, plants, animals and implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they eitherwholly lose their nature, or are spoiled." - Aristotle

"If your business model is selling water in the desert and it startsto rain, you'd better find a different business model." - Ian Clarke

"By using everyday words in idiosyncratic ways, economists hijacknormative "feel good" terms for their heinous "feel bad" political agenda: Social Darwinism. Economists are able to use both definitionssimultaneously in order to "feel good" about their politics while deceiving others -- which is a splendid example of lying to oneself inorder to tell more convincing lies to others. Economists provide the best examples of how the animal evolved as the apex "social predator"rather than the apex "engineer" (economists don't know anything about the real world -- and they don't care)." - Jay Hanson

"Man must rise above the clouds and look back upon the Earth, onlythen can he truly understand the nature of things." - Socrates

"Either we pursue economic growth and ecological collapse, or weseek ecological sustainabillity and economic collapse." - McLaughlin

"When democratic government failed in Germany and Japan, fascismrose to fill the void." - Peter McMahon

"The history of cosmology is not the easy story of the rejection ofabsurd ideas in favour of what (perhaps after a little thought) is seen to be patently true, but the heroic saga of the hard-won rejection ofthe patently true in favour of the absurd." - Michael Hoskin

"His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. Toknow and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinionswhich canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality whilelaying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it wasnecessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, andabove all, to apply the same process to the process itself � that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then,once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word "doublethink" involved the useof doublethink."  � George Orwell

"Who vagrant transitory comet sees, Wonders because they're rare: but a new star Whose motion with the firmament agrees, Is miracle, forthere no new things are." - John Donne