To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

Thank God for the gracious gift of life.

The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

I know that when I'm looking better and I'm eating right, I also feel better.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good." -Master George

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.