Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty....

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.

Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?