Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that you can just lie on the floor and bust a gut laughing at, then what's the point?

We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.

The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.