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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.