Quotes About Us

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

Far and away the most important lesson to impart to the American mind and soul: regardless of our lifetime of education to the contrary, US foreign policy does not 'mean well.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

God has a plan to help bring justice to the world - and his plan is us.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.