In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then the Supreme Court gives them personhood with the Citizens United decision. You realize that no matter… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
“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… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.” — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
“Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth's climate? Yes. OK, that being the case, let's undermine… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
