All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.