Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.