I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
Sometimes it’s a short step from banning to burning.
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made – you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.
And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.
Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.
Crosses and gallows – that deadly historic juxtaposition.
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
Yes, we’re dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don’t want war. We don’t want capitalism. We want a decent society.
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.