“We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.”

“I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.”

“What happens when an animal or person dies? Something seems to have departed--something like a vital spark that makes the difference between life and death. In the nineteenth century, philosophers believed that there really was such a thing and called it the élan vital, or vital spirit. But when twentieth century science began to unravel the mysteries of how living things work and reproduce, the idea was abandoned and people now accept that there is nothing more to being alive than complex, interrelated, biological functions.”

“Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.”

“There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.”

“Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it?”

“We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!”