Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture of deference, whereas in the 70s we really are in a time of angry transition. The generation that came into young adulthood in the 70s couldn't find jobs; that wasn't true in my generation. They entered a time when two depressing things hit them both at the same time.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.