We are living at the moment in revolutionary times. Argentineans probably are more aware of it than anybody else, because they tasted it several years earlier - but now the whole world is in trouble.

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 bond of sisterly love is much tighter than the bond which binds men.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that hes a Christian, but you look at how they live.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.