Birgit Bohm

“There is nothing natural or innate about the productivist behaviours we associate with homo economicus. That creature is the product of five centuries of cultural re-programming.”
― Jason Hickel, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“The most important area of domination [is] the mental universe of the colonised, the control, through culture, of how people perceive themselves and their relationship to the world.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“it also leaves out much of what is good: it doesn’t count non-monetised economic activities, even when they are essential to human life and well-being. If you grow your own food, clean your own house or care for your ageing parents, GDP says nothing. It only counts if you pay companies to do these things for you.”
― Jason Hickel, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“This is the core principle of capitalism: that the world is not really alive, and it is certainly not our kin, but rather just stuff to be extracted and discarded – and that includes most of the human beings living here too. From its very first principles, capitalism has set itself at war against life itself.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World