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.

I don't even know if I ever knew - some sweatshop in Baltimore. I knew with my other relatives - some of the women were in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and men were shop boys and things like that. I happened to be in Philadelphia, but the family was in New York. I could see what the union was doing for them.It really saved their lives.

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the "post-truth" moment that the proper response might best be ridicule.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

A functioning eco-system is a human need.