The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance

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.

Hayden?""Yes, Gia?""Nothing I just wanted to say your name

(Looking at the tree) Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.