The total person is first disclosed. . . in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
If you can make peoples lives a lot better, you've got a really good business.
We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [. . . ]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?