Wir brauchen eine Umverteilung der Einkommen (Grundeinkommen), der Zeit (Arbeitszeitverkürzung), der Steuern (Besteuerung des Kapitals statt der Arbeit) und der Roboter.

Wir leben in einer Welt, in der die Grundregel anscheinend lautet, dass wir umso weniger zum BIP beitragen, je wichtiger unsere Tätigkeit für die Gesellschaft ist.

Das Regieren nach Zahlen ist die letzte Zuflucht eines Landes, das nicht mehr weiß, was es will und keinerlei Utopie mehr hat.

Je näher die Welt zusammenrückt, desto kleiner wird die Zahl der Gewinner.

Die reichsten 8% besitzen die Hälfte des globalen Einkommens.

Die reichsten 1% besitzen mehr als die Hälfte des gesamten Vermögens der Menschheit.

Die ärmste Milliarde hat 1% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Der reichsten Milliarde hat 72% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Wenn wir die Welt zu einem besseren Ort machen wollen, führt kein Weg daran vorbei, die Grenzen für die Migranten zu beseitigen.

Das Problem sind nicht die neuen Ideen. Das Problem ist, wie wir uns von den alten Ideen lösen können.

Intelligente Menschen nutzen ihren Verstand nicht, um die richtige Antwort zu finden. Sie nutzen ihn, um die Antwort zu finden, die ihnen gefällt.

Wer sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnern kann, ist dazu verurteilt, sie zu wiederholen.

Unser Ziel sollte nicht ein vollkommenes Utopia sein, sondern eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Hoffnung lebendig sind.

Nichts ist stärker, als eine Idee, deren Zeit gekommen ist.

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

Hay is for horses.

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Reach for all the purpose you can and in the end you will find that it was fulfilled.

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

I'm pretty versatile. I'm able to adapt to an environment and the way I view things based on who I'm with.

I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.

Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.