For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Our media make crisis chatter out of news and fill our minds with anxious phantoms of the real thing - a summit in Helsinki, a treaty in Egypt, a constitutiona…

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human bei…

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be on…

We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet kn…

...I don't feel that they deserve a blanket condemnation at all. There are many things to object to in any society. But take China, modern China; one also find…