“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” — Ursula K. LeGuin …

“I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.” — Noam Chomsky …

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” — John Lennon …

“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.” — Michael Moore 2003 Oscar speech …

“A musician’s or artist’s responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.” — Tom Morello …

“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.” — Angela Davis …

“Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.” — Julian Casablancas …

“What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up. ” — Naomi Klein …

“[T]he hungry ghost realm [is a Buddhist phrase], the creatures in it are depicted as people with large empty bellies, small mouths and scrawny thin necks. They can never get enough satisfaction. They can never fill their bellies. They’re always hungry, always empty, always seeking it from the outside. That speaks to a part of us that I have and everybody in our society has, where we want satisfaction from the outside, where we’re empty, …

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“One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.” — Michael Moore …