I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.

Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't think it should be outlawed, but I'm not in favor of the degradation of anybody.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.