You can never be totally confident.
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
As you can imagine, with Hillary Clinton being here, security is very tight. The Secret Service has been here all day sweeping the halls, the offices, the hard drives. . . It's tight.
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.