Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whos….

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 lif….

I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out ….

Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchi….

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war..

Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences..

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates..

Education can, and should be, dangerous..

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too ofte….

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people..

Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians.….

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what ….

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote ….

The future is an infinite succession of presents..

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country….

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens..

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who est….

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not ….

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times..

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists.

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater t….