It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.