Top 40 Heather Marsh Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.”

— Heather Marsh

2. “Who controls the words controls your thoughts.”

— Heather Marsh

3. “Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don’t want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.”

— Heather Marsh

4. “We are, or will be, going through the most radical transformation the world has ever seen; people are justly terrified, excited, depressed, heartbroken and hopeful, all at once.”

— Heather Marsh

5. “Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.”

— Heather Marsh

6. “All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.”

— Heather Marsh

7. “We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.”

— Heather Marsh

8. “The field of psychology has been less than successful at explaining human behaviour. It has been far less successful at establishing a normative ideal for human development.”

— Heather Marsh

9. “Beware of your contribution to the growing banality of evil lest you yourself become a cog in the machinery of terror.”

— Heather Marsh

10. “Militaries torture children to ‘keep people safe’ and corporations destroy the environment to ‘give you jobs’.”

— Heather Marsh

11. “A person who takes your idea and information to use and build upon is your collaborator, tester and colleague. A person who takes your credit or your voice is your enemy, a thief who steals your societal recognition and approval for themselves and would be your tyrant.”

— Heather Marsh

12. “We can tell the revolution has failed every time we look around and see the fraternity sitting astride the ideals of the voiceless and promising to ride them to a different place this time.”

— Heather Marsh

13. “Women in all cultures are expected to do very difficult, time consuming, laborious and high risk unpaid work to give birth and raise children, and in many cultures they remain as an almost entirely unpaid foundation of slave labour that the rest of the economy is built upon.”

— Heather Marsh

14. “The world we live in is still mostly governed by a ponzi scheme of power, wealth and celebrity. Those at the top of the ponzi scheme are standing on nothing but the world’s acceptance of their right to be there.”

— Heather Marsh

15. “Power is never benevolent and never inert. Where it exists in great excess, atrocities always exist in great excess as well.”

— Heather Marsh

16. “The first right of any person in any society must be the right to communicate. Without communication there is no way to safeguard our other rights or for us to participate fully in a society.”

— Heather Marsh

17. “Providing free streets for vehicles and charging for public transit is taxing the necessities of the poor for the autogenocidal luxuries of the wealthy.”

— Heather Marsh

18. “Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.”

— Heather Marsh

19. “What is the difference between a terrorist and a soldier? The actions are now identical, both act to produce terror, so probably the only standing difference is that terrorists are non-government agencies. Remember that.”

— Heather Marsh

20. “Guilt is an acknowledgment of debt for unbalanced transactions.”

— Heather Marsh

21. “Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.”

— Heather Marsh

22. “Information freedom is the freedom to access, participate in, understand and benefit from knowledge creation. This includes access to raw data, transparent auditing processes which include both elite knowledge and complete and immediate feedback from user groups and anyone else impacted, and interpretation which flows directly from the audit without interference from coercive manipulation.”

— Heather Marsh

23. “Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.”

— Heather Marsh

24. “Our right to communicate is usurped by those with the access to audience.”

— Heather Marsh

25. “The answer to the riddle posed by identity groups is that they are one entity and their identity is that of their ideal. There can be no shared identity among people, as each person is unique.”

— Heather Marsh

26. “Get healthy, get strong, get educated and informed, and start contributing to your own governance.”

— Heather Marsh

27. “Governance to me is action not an organization. It is something people have to just do. It is only after governance by the people is established that politicians can be lobbied into supporting it until it makes them obsolete.”

— Heather Marsh

28. “When your right to communicate is interrupted by those who would be your voice, your face or your representative, you are being subjected to the governance of another.”

— Heather Marsh

29. “And it is customary for those who uphold this absolute form of secretive tyrannical rule to call people like me anarchists, but if all anarchy means is there are no absolute rulers or centralized authority, then shouldn’t that be a basic tenet of a democracy?”

— Heather Marsh

30. “Let’s try to create a new habit of slow travel; let’s forfeit the social media selfies and work on creating true links of friendship, mutual aid, trust and discovery when we are guests in other people’s communities and homes.”

— Heather Marsh

31. “Opportunists are promoted, realists are co-opted, idealists are frightened and radicals are shot.”

— Heather Marsh

32. “Wars are told from the point of view of arms dealers and politicians, disasters are interpreted by NGO’s, most issues are never covered at all. Official channels decide what will or will not be revealed and media are rewarded for their obedience by access to more official information.”

— Heather Marsh

33. “Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least.”

— Heather Marsh

34. “Human rights don’t trickle down.”

— Heather Marsh

35. “An external threat that is not a rival endogroup does not produce an endogroup power structure to combat it. A naturally occurring environmental threat creates widespread exosocial collaboration, as is seen in every disaster.”

— Heather Marsh

36. “As information and voice amplification become the new symbols of power, those who would assume control of society have moved to hoard voice amplification and control the message received by the public in new ways.”

— Heather Marsh

37. “Every threat to an endogroup results in increased violence towards its own weakest members, the negative image. All externally directed atrocities eventually come home to roost, including genocide.”

— Heather Marsh

38. “The first thing that happens in a disaster is the breakdown of endogroups and hierarchy and the establishment of altruistic exosocial aid.”

— Heather Marsh

39. “The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.”

— Heather Marsh

40. “In a war as huge as this, there will be many, many, leaders, in every location and aspect of the war. This is not a war for followers. It is the responsibility of each person to become as educated, informed and healthy as possible if you are to make a contribution.”

— Heather Marsh

41. “Where there is society there is no need for charity.”

— Heather Marsh

42. “Media who pretend to write stories about groups whose voices are never heard but write almost universally through the lens of western men instead, are ensuring that all interpretations and solutions come from the same small segment of society.”

— Heather Marsh

43. “We don’t need cryptocurrency, or even basic income, as much as we need institutions of sharing and free services like transit, medical care, education, food and housing.”

— Heather Marsh

44. “All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.”

— Heather Marsh