The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

We die unconsciously, we are born unconsciously and we live unconsciously as well

A gently touching hand is an expression of trust.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.