Carlin. Mauro. Marx.   Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…

Twain. Milne. Rousseau. Haudenosaunee.   In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at…

Ebenstein/Fogelman. Kohn. Lasch. In the United States, anxiety over preserving one's threatened status has been one of the main psychological forces exploited by the radical right and by fascists groups. This status anxiety has…

Hobbes. Spinoza. TFG.   Desire of knowledge, and of arts of peace, inclineth men to obey a common power; for such desire, containeth a desire of leisure; and consequently protection from some other power…

Mark Twain. Dalai Lama. Isaac Asimov.   In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the…

H.L. Mencken. Hunter S. Thompson. John Lewis.   In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common…

Philip Pullman. Zadie Smith. Giannina Braschi. Wendell Steavenson.   The commercial pressures, the forces urging us to buy and discard and buy again. When everything in public life has a logo attached to it,…

Sandra Sealy. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Jessica Valenti.   Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the…

Pierre Du Pont. Theodore Roosevelt. Howard Zinn.   The inhabitants of your country districts regard – wrongly, it is true – Indians and forests as natural enemies which must be exterminated by fire and…

Rene Descartes. Michael Curtis. William Carr.   Good sense is the most equitably distributed thing in the world, for each man considers himself so well provided with it that even those who are most…

Frantz Fanon. Graeme Rodaughan. John Stuart Mill.   The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable…