Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

It turns out we're very good at not seeing things

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.