There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

The Nigerian economy needs the world, and the world needs the Nigerian economy.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

You threaten my son, you threaten me.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.