“If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?” - Ymber Delecto

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”- J.R.R. Tolkien

“The future participates actively in the present, providing part of the context within which today's decisions are made.” – Fred L. Polak

“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds” – Mark Twain

“The only thing we have to fear… is fear itself…nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” - Frankin Delano Roosevelt

“New forms of work that enhance the Social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967

“America [ will ] never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continue to draw men and skills and money, like some demonic destructive suction tube” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our financial system is designed to liquidate our life support system, rewarding current returns over any hope for our descendants.” - Jason Bradford, Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL)

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. – Arthur E. Morgan

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things - Russell Baker

“People think that you can have learning malls in the same way that we have shopping malls, and that the consumerism that we now have has changed the culture's sense of worth and value of what an education is. People have confused certification and degrees with being educated.” - Richard Hersh, past president, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“[The] good news is that there is plenty of money sloshing around out there and a tiny fraction, a ridiculous, infinitesimal proportion of it would be enough to provide a decent life to every person on earth, to supply universal health and education, to clean up the environment and prevent further destruction to the planet, to close the North-South gap—“ - Susan George

"Anyone can be ejected from the system at any time--because of illness, age, pregnancy, perceived failure, or simply because economic circumstances and the relentless transfer of wealth from top to bottom demand it. Shareholder value is all. “- Susan George

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” - Voltaire

“Living in a capitalist society with no access to capital is just a sophisticated form of slavery." - Ambassador Andrew Young

“Only a fool would choose war over peace - for in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers their sons” -- Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484 BC-ca. 425 BC).

“There never was a good war or a bad peace” – Benjamin Franklin

“Frankly speaking, you sometimes have to get annoyed to make things work well” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business” - Henry Ford

“People do not die for lack of incomes. They die for lack of access to resources” - Vandana Shiva

"In fact there are times when I believe that our feelings about illness and our visions of the future may be the determining factor in whether we sucumb or survive." - Dr. Robert Rountree, MD