Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.
As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine. . . What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.
To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.
Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it -- at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens.