Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

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.

We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

Stand up and finish what you started

Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.