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

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

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.

How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.