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 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 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.

Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

We wanted to touch them with our action.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Oh, come on. I have to know about the who-do voodoo that you do. (Nick)