America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.