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.

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.

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

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

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

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.