This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

What I've said to [my team] is, "Look, we ran our leg of the race and we did a darn good job."

I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.