Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations.

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

That just seems to be the way we’re built.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.

Every advantage has its tax.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.