Kalle Lasn Quotes

#1. The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

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#2. I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

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#3. Amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

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#4. Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

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#5. In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

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#6. The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

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#7. America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself
from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

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#8. In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

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#9. The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

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#10. Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

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#11. I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

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#12. It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

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#13. Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.

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