"Nothing matters to the market but profit. Forests only have value as timber or toilet paper; animals only have value as hot dogs or hamburgers. The precious, unrepeatable moments of our lives only have value as labor hours determined by the imperatives of commerce. The market rewards landlords for evicting families, bosses for exploiting employees, engineers for inventing death machines. It separates mothers from their children, drives species into extinction, shuts down hospitals to open up privatized prisons. It reduces entire ecosystems to ash, spewing out smog and stock options. Left to itself, it will turn the whole world into a graveyard."

"The doctor died. The patient died. The stone died and nothing remained."

"Why can't you turn inward on yourself and say 'I won't buy no clothes I don't produce'? Start with your underwear. 'I'll wear no shoes that's not made by...a brother.' Start buying aeroplanes and break em down and study them, later on make aeroplanes. What this whole thing is about is the restoration of confidence. It has been the role of these handmaidens of colonialism to destroy your confidence in yourself."

"The aims of these groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again."

"There is, upon the top of Jlinchmuir, a mountain in Peeblesshire, a spring called the Cheese Well, because, anciently, those who passed that way were wont to throw into it a piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated."

"It was moving too fast. And then I was 19. And then I was 20. I felt like one of those dolls, asleep in the supermarket; stuffed. And then I was 21. Like chapters skipped over on a DVD. I told myself, this isn't normal. This isn't normal, this isn't how life is supposed to be. I thought about running away again."

“That’s something I consider as sort of the secondary threat model, is the government trying to prevent people from actually doing okay without them.”

“My mind, is like a switchboard //
With crossed and tangled lines //
Contented with confusion //
That is plugged into my head //
I don't know what's going on //
It's the operator's job, not mine, I said” //

"What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position."

"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."

"Each season was determined by the budding or leafing of plants, the spawning of fish or the rutting time for animals. Most Indians thought the white race had been running around like scared rabbits ever since the invention of the clock.”

Yellow. You are all that is bright and joyful. You are the sunbeams and the flowers that drink them. You are lemons and bananas. You are sour and sweet. You are all the beauty that cannot stay. You are yellow, you are perfect. please visit me again.

"We created peaceful nations that had no word for jail because no one had ever gone to one. No word for old people's homes because no one ever thrown away Grandma and Grandpa. No words for orphanages. We did all of this and over half of human civilization was over before we knew that a European was in the world."