Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.
Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind.
In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.
A good work can be communicated across languages. . . [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.
Who does not grow, declines.
To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.
The truth often does sound unconvincing.
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.
Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.
Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.
Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.
Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.
I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.
Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug
