In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that’s got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

I saw America’s economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn’t be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.

By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read...

Have you ever found yourself saying, “There ought to be a law against this,” or, “Somebody should do something”? Well, here’s the good news – you can be the one to do something. You can...

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future...

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people…

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has...

He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup,...

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what’s being said is the party line.

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that’s more terrifying than the...

I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament

A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn’t work … she thought and thought then said “the Politician is going to get...