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.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

Pray, and let God worry.

Glorious death is a transition into heavenly glories

Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now

I am for people. I can't help it.

He is a leader among leaders.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.