Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful.

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.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha.

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

I keep my eyes wide open. Because trouble is out there.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!

What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.