“This is taking [photos] from everybody – the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like – and linking all of that together.”

[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that’s greater than the sum of the parts.

I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.

On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed.

We must humble ourselves and commit to routine and collective actions.

Routine, measurable, and collective actions both small and large will make an impact.

The need of the hour is that your life should be revolutionised.

The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one.