Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end... you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

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

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

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.