Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

From the time I wake up until the time I go to bed, music is unfortunately on my mind, on my stereo, or I'm making it or talking about it.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Everything pays for growing tame.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less