The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.