“Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.”

You can’t win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60’s person or you’ve sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60’s are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

I don’t feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily–obviously not completely–moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

I don’t come from a privileged background.

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture,

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we’ve called the military error.

The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

Killing a cop just because he’s a cop, that’ll happen. And that should happen. And there’s nothing inhuman about it at all. It’s survival. It’s the most human thing in the world.

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.

When I can see them on Netflix. I don’t really watch anything on TV. It’s not really a priority for me.