There's a very striking fact about the elections which you can't miss if you looked at the red-and-blue electoral map the next day: it's the same political landscape that you saw during the Civil War - nothing much has changed except the party names.

When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for us but our parents never found that out. In a way, you avoid telling your parents what happened to you during those days.

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.

I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.