My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

Life with trials hard may press me

Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.

As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.