[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom. . . . Actually Existing Islam. . . which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.
That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. I'm running for president and I'm running to uphold the Constitution, which has a strict separation of church and state.
Well, we now have such a photograph. . . Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment. . . It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.