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...

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

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.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating...

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect...

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only...

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would...

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.

Summer is the mother of the poor.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that an' Chuck 'im out the brute. But it's 'Savior of his country' when the guns begin to shoot.