All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident.

This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.