We vote with our dollars or euros. Everytime we spend money, we're casting a vote. So when we go into the store today, are we buying our vegetables from a local farmer or are we buying them from an organic farmer or are we buying from companies that are practicing clean pratices in the world. - Michael Franti

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness. - Daniel Quinn