Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality — not at the same time as you’re bombing people, you can’t.
The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.
The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that ‘justice is what love looks like in public.’ I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.
[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.
When Nike says, just do it, that’s a message of empowerment. Why aren’t the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
That’s the big mistake the environmental movement made – ‘We’ll scare the hell out of you, and you’ll become an activist’.