The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
What its children become, that will the community become.
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.
When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order.
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P. D. A. 's means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.
People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.