It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?