To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Even if we do vote, we should just spend less time and intellectual energy on our choices and keep our eye on the ball.

The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.

I don't think the state will allow people to occupy a particular space unless it feels that allowing that will end up in a kind of complacency, and the effectiveness and urgency of the protest will be lost.