Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

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.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.