Abraham, Richard — Recovery of Rosa Luxemburg’s thought.

“Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently.” — Rosa Luxemburg (the line his work recovers)

Armstrong, Karen — The Great Transformation

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you.”

Baker, Norman — And What Do You Do?

“The monarchy is not a harmless tourist attraction. It is a living symbol of inherited privilege at the centre of the British state.”

Banosky & Hardy — End Game

“We are not approaching a crisis. We are living inside one that has already begun.”

Bendell, Jem — Breaking Together

“The sooner we drop the pretence that this civilisation can continue as it is, the sooner we can start living with what is actually happening.”

Bohm, David — On Dialogue

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”

Brand, Russell — Revolution

“The planet is being destroyed by people who are trying to own it.”

Carne, Ross — The Leaderless Revolution

“The most powerful revolutions are the ones that do not wait for permission or a leader.”

Carson, Rachel — Silent Spring

“In nature nothing exists alone.”

Chomsky, Noam — Making the Future

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”

Colburn, Theo — Our Stolen Future

“We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment, and we are all the experimental animals.”

Cook-Greuter, Susanne — Ego Development

“Individuals at the Unitive stage are able to witness the whole song and dance of prior ways of meaning-making with compassion and equanimity.”

Das, Satyajit — Extreme Money

“Finance has become a world unto itself, detached from the real economy it was supposed to serve.”

Diamond, Jared — Collapse

“The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”

Dorling, Danny — Inequality and the 1%

“The 1% do not just have more money. They live in a different country from the rest of us.”

Filiu, Jean-Paul — Gaza

“Gaza is not a humanitarian problem. It is a political one that has been made to look humanitarian.”

Fraser, Ian — Shredded

“RBS did not collapse because of a few bad apples. It collapsed because the culture of the bank made those apples inevitable.”

Fukuoka, Masanobu — The One-Straw Revolution

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

Graeber, David — Debt / Bullshit Jobs

“If history shows anything, it is that there’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence than by reframing them in the language of debt.”

Harari, Yuval Noah — 21 Lessons

“Humans think in stories, and we try to make our lives fit the stories we tell.”

Hickel, Jason — Less is More

“What makes capitalism different is that it’s organised around the imperative of constant expansion — growth for its own sake, with no identifiable end-point.”

Hudson, Michael — And Forgive Them Their Debts

“Debts that cannot be paid, won’t be. The only question is how they will not be paid.”

Jackson, Ross — Occupy World Street

“We cannot solve the problems of a global system with the same thinking that created it.”

Jones, Owen — The Establishment

“The Establishment is not a conspiracy. It is a set of people who share the same interests and the same assumptions.”

Kallis, Giorgos — In Defence of Degrowth

“The problem is not that we do not have enough. The problem is that we cannot stop wanting more.”

Keen, Steve — Debunking Economics

“Economics is too important to be left to the economists.”

Kennard, Matt & Claire Provost — Silent Coup

“The most successful coup is the one that never has to announce itself.”

Kingsnorth, Paul — Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist

“The environmental movement has become another form of progress, and progress is the problem.”

Klein, Naomi — The Shock Doctrine

“Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”

Kolbert, Elizabeth — The Sixth Extinction

“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.”

Kuhn, Thomas — The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“The man who is prepared to accept new truths is the man who is prepared to abandon old ones.”

Lomas, Robert — The Lost Key

“What is hidden is often more powerful than what is declared.”

Mandour, Maged — Egypt under El-Sisi

“Authoritarianism does not always arrive with a coup. Sometimes it arrives as the restoration of order.”

Martyanov, Andrei — America’s Final War

“A nation that cannot accurately assess its own military power is already losing.”

Maté, Gabor — In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

“The question is never ‘Why the addiction?’ but ‘Why the pain?’”

McLean & Nocera — All the Devils Are Here

“The crisis was not an accident. It was the logical result of a system designed to reward the wrong things.”

Monbiot, George

“Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.”

Negri, Antonio — Marx Beyond Marx

“Living labour is the only source of value, and it cannot be fully captured.”

Parampil, Anya — Corporate Coup

“Empire does not always arrive with tanks. Sometimes it arrives with contracts.”

Perkins, John — Confessions of an Economic Hitman

“Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries out of trillions of dollars.”

Pettifor, Ann

“There is no shortage of money. There is a shortage of the political will to create it for the right purposes.”

Piketty, Thomas — Capital in the 21st Century

“The past devours the future: r > g.”

Pilger, John

“It is not enough to report the news. The news itself is often the cover story.”

Posner, Gerald — God’s Bankers

“The Vatican’s finances have always been about more than money. They have been about power.”

Price, Andy — Recovering Bookchin

“Social ecology begins from the recognition that the domination of nature follows from the domination of human by human.”

Prins, Nomi — Collusion

“Central banks do not just manage money. They manage the distribution of power.”

Rattray Taylor, Gordon — The Biological Time Bomb

“We are acquiring the power to alter life before we have acquired the wisdom to use it.”

Raworth, Kate — Doughnut Economics

“The challenge is to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet.”

Rifkin, Jeremy — The Zero Marginal Cost Society

“When the marginal cost of producing information and energy approaches zero, the old market logic begins to collapse.”

Shaxson, Nicholas — The Finance Curse

“A country can have too much finance, just as a body can have too much fat.”

Standing, Guy — The Precariat

“The precariat is not just a class in the making. It is a class that is being made anxious.”

Thomas, Gordon & Morgan-Witts, Max — The Day the Bubble Burst

“The crash did not come from nowhere. It came from a long season of believing the impossible.”

Todd, Emmanuel — The Defeat of the West

“A civilisation declines when it can no longer reproduce either its people or its beliefs.”

Tolle, Eckhart — The Power of Now

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

Varoufakis, Yanis — Technofeudalism

“We are not moving towards a more perfect market. We are moving towards a new form of fiefdom.”

Williams, Barbara — Saving Us from Ourselves

“The hardest task is not to save the planet. It is to save us from the stories we tell about ourselves.”

Winstanley, Asa — Weaponising Anti-Semitism

“The most effective way to close down a political argument is to make the argument itself unsayable.”

Wolf, Naomi — The End of America

“Fascism is not a single event. It is a process, and the process is recognisable.”

Wolff, Richard D. — Understanding Capitalism

“Capitalism is not just an economy. It is a way of organising power over other people’s work.”