Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

Be careful who you believe and how you believe who you believe. What and Who you believe influences your life powerfully

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Dream is also just a word until you decide to fight for it with all your enthusiasm and commitment

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.