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.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.

Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.