There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.