You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.
Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
When women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports. Men bond over their sexual prowess - their strength, their agility, their power. Women bond over their undulation, their curves, their sensuality - things that are innately feminine. Once you do that, there is no turning back.
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.