When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.
I don't come from a privileged background.
Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.
You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable. . . those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities. ' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep. . .