Able Quote by Kalle Lasn

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

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

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

— Kalle Lasn

“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

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

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

— Kalle Lasn

“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

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

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

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

— Kalle Lasn

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

— Kalle Lasn

“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