Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable!

My roots are in my record player.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.