- Michael Ruppert: It's kind of sad because we as a species have become so disconnected from the Earth. We don't have any real contact with the Earth. We don't have any sense of its functions, its feeling, its seasons, its timings.
- Michael Ruppert: There was a guy who said that war was the continuation of politics by other means. Politics is the continuation of economics by other means.
- Michael Ruppert: The people who run the monetary paradigm, the economic paradigm since money was first invented, have tried to mystify it and make everybody believe that only some expert could understand the mambo-jumbo of the priests of money.