Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

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.

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was…terrifying." Muse

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.