It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.