What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

his eyes are swords from far was sparkling sharpnesson my body and soul

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.