I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.