“The basic rights of the recent past – a safe job, free education and healthcare, secure homes to raise a family, a modest but comfortable old age – have slipped quietly away... ”
“My ambition was to have a job where you wore a white shirt and a tie and you enjoyed what you were doing. Where I grew up, that was a pretty big thing.”
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”
“The campaign for the legalisation of gay marriage does not simply represent a claim for a right; it also represents a demand for the institutionalisation of new moral and cultural values.”
“The United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted. ”
“there's a very slim chance Bachmann could actually be a threat, her announcement pretty much guarantees the GOP race will be nothing short of a hilarious madcap clown car slugfest, with Jesus.”
“Medicare is threatened, and voices are raised in rage. Medicaid is threatened, and there is hardly a whisper of dissent. ”
“Nietzchean will is being used to power the ethics of both the axiomatic drive of capital ism to compete and dominate, and of a Republican ethic that is,... no more nor less than a Nietzschean master morality.”
“It is just that more and more European watchmakers begin to understand that it is time to stop making their watches bigger and start making them better.”