There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

It’s hard not to smile when you’re going eyeball to eyeball with a frosted chocolate cupcake.

With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

One of the reasons why they are optimistic is that there is more competition. Red Bull has become more competitive, the races have become more attractive - and that is what fans want!

Swimming always cleans your soul