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

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

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

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.

The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than anybody could produce them in Detroit, we no longer were the world capital of industrialization.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?