“Where there is society, there is no need for charity.”

“Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.”

“We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.”

“Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.”

“Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.”

“Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”

“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to resc...”

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”