“In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.”

“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and accumulation constitute its very law of life, a law … summarised in the phrase, ‘production for the sake of production.’ Anything, however hallowed or rare, ‘has its price’ and is fair game for the marketplace. In a society of this kind, nature is necessarily treated as a mere resource to be plundered and exploited. The destruction of the natural world, far being the result of mere hubristic blunders, follows inexorably from the very logic of capitalist production.”

“Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of production is a lower output produced. The price that invariably must be paid for taxation, and for every increase in taxation, is a coercively lowered productivity that in turn reduces the standard of living in terms of valuable assets provided for future consumption. Every act of taxation necessarily exerts a push away from more highly capitalized, more productive production processes in the direction of a hand-to-mouth-existence.”

“Not to improve is fatal. Organizations who fail to respond to changes in the marketplace become stuck in a rut of product focused production with an ever shrinking market and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.”

“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.”

“The world of global drug production, shipping distribution, sales, and consumption is too complex, however, to be understood in any single us-and-them story.”