In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than...

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Why would people want to take advice from a group of people who pretend to be other people for a living?

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

I don't have a phone.

I tried being a stay-at-home mom for eight weeks. I like the stay-at-home part. Not too crazy about the mom aspect.

Women have been programmed to criticise their own bodies because we should have the shape that society, and in particular men, want.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't...

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that...

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from...