Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

I just saw over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was always because players didn't want to let each other down. Players wanted to lift each other up.