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.

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

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.

And so that means...""We have to rob the Henley, " Simon said.Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to me.

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.