In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,' through which people are subject to computer-monitored house arrest, or granting fuller surveillance and disciplinary powers and tec...
We will never understand our world until we have come to terms with its future: it is the age in which we live. The Cold War depended upon internal division in order to maintain itself. Behind its various feints, games and strategies lay a perception...
Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are and how they should behave. The introduction of t...
A contemporary Catholic opponent of Martin Luther complained, "Even tailors and shoe-makers – even women and ignorant persons, who could read but little – studied it (the German Bible) with the greatest avidity as the fountain of truth. Some comm...
As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I...
We are attempting to build, within our movement, non-exploitative ways of relating to one another based on trust and concern rather than political expediency. We have serious personal/political intentions in breaking down hierarchical and elitist str...
Harvey Milk: If we had someone in the government who saw things the way we see them, the way the black community has black leaders who look out for their interests... Scott Smith: You're gonna run for Supervisor, is that the idea? Harvey Milk: I coul...
In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.
Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.
