We’re like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever. – Carl Sagan

The anguish we suffer together is not a mysterious syndrome without physical roots. It’s not a vibe or a mood. It’s an expression of physics supercharged by a uniquely sociopathic form of commerce. – Tim Winton

The choice is no longer violence or nonviolence; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – John F. Kennedy

There are bazillions of cheap solar panels in China. Let’s buy them all with a small fraction of our military budget, make friends with China, become energy-independent and solve the climate crisis. Then, let’s abolish the army (like Costa Rica did in 1948) and nationalize health care (like most civilized countries did long ago). The trillion dollar military budget and obscene profits of the insurance industry can then provide universal health care and a guaranteed minimum income for everyone while the scourge of the military-industrial complex no longer terrorizes the world. So there. I’ve solved the world’s problems in a paragraph.