The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Gender-equality rests on the idea that one can climb the sea and swim the mountains.

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

If you don't believe in miracles, you will see none.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.