Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!

The test of your Christian Faith is to stand by the Truth of God's Word in the face of opposition without Compromise ... JOA

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.