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

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Reality is a powerful solvent.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

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.