An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.