The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.

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

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.