People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

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

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.