Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
. . . within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.
We will have to create an avant-garde. . . . We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's a thief of time and includes all the palpable and subtle violations of body, mind, and spirit done in the name of science, government, enterprise, progress, and profit.
I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.