Great Throughts Treasury

"[A] society that pulls the needs of its children dead is a society “progressing” rapidly toward moral ruin."

"People who routinely insist on the illegitimacy of blaming victims now do it. No one deserved what happened to them on September 11, neither the immediate victims and their families nor the country itself. Cannot a powerful country bleed? Are not its citizens as mortal as those anywhere? Simple human recognition along these lines does not deter the literary theorist Frederic Jameson from seeing in these horrific events "a textbook example of dialectical reversal." "

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."