I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
Jerry Brown

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Jerry Brown

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.
Jerry Brown

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
Jerry Brown

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown

The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Jerry Brown

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
Jerry Brown

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.
Jerry Brown

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
Jerry Brown

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
Jerry Brown