Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

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

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

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

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.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.