It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am overconfident. I look petulant when I stand my ground.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.

She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young

If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

Hope is a gracious expectation.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn't set out to be an action hero.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Things that seem incredibly different can really be manifestations of the same underlying phenomena.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.