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Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

We are capitalism made flesh.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.