Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country. . . But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.
The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.