Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

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 present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

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.

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

Your mom's in our business...she's in our business... Can't you see, girl, that your mom's trying to end this?

I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.