He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.