F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

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.

Sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.-Ehlena's thoughts

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.