Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

No matter how big a company is, one has to always look at business basics.

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

I don't believe in astrology - of course that's very typical of Leos.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.