The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

Every source of blessing is a point of attack.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.