One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It was kind of structured so you ended up knowing everything you were supposed to know, arithmetic, Latin, whatever it was. But almost always it was under your own initiative.

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.