The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.