We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

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

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.

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.