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One of the problems with fame ... is they try to pigeonhole you ... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

There is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture ...

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.