Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

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.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

Making love with his ego.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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