In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

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...

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and...

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to...

Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their...

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...

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of...

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Research is the creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge,...

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of...

The family is the first essential cell of human society.