In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.
I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.
Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.
When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.
I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.
Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.
If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.
This is not politics. . . it's to protect the innocence of children.
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.