Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

It is in the stillness of the mind that we perceive the heart with clarity. By constantly observing the inner weather, we steer through life wisely, steadfastly, sans regrets.

You might be a big fish in a little pond, Doesn't mean you've won'Coz along may come a bigger one.

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

Perhaps I'm just optimistic.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.