According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

Man is a moral being.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.