Rhys Ifans Quotes

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

We live in a world today where the capitalists' confidence in their ability to rule has been shaken.

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.

Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.

Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.