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

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

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

“…The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty….” ― George Washington, 1796 Farewell Address to the People of the United States

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 and Russia, become energy-independent and fix Earth’s climate together. Then, let’s abolish our armies (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. Voilà. The world’s problems solved in a paragraph.