Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.

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.

You are beautiful. You are unique. Your heart holds celestial love which flows like a mighty river through you to nourish the universe.

And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we shareWith a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passionWhich builds beauty amongst chaos.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.