In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.

I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.