We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

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.

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

Practice like good musician; draw every day.