What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.

Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.