When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.