The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

Always live in the here and now

Write your dreams in journal, note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

Investigation is never complete.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.