While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine.

We need a break from Capitalism.

There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who reflects your deepest vision of yourself

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.