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.

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Until you fight the battle against time, you won’t know how best to manage your time

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

All I have to do is find someone who has something to say that will enrich my life and they can't get rid of me.

We have to get a lot tougher if we're going to win this war [with ISIS]. If we're not going to be tougher, we're never going to win this war. This is only going to get worse.

Tomorrow you will say Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible! It's not terrible. It's good.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

He that lives in love lives in God.