Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.

Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.

The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves

Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.