Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.