24 Quotes by Frances Moore Lappé

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it’s what we become in action.

Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

Honest hope has an edge. It’s messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It’s not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works – what some call a paradigm – that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

I’m neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything’s connected and change is the only constant.