Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.
If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.
North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of r...
Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers.
Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.
I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.
We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.
Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.
Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.
We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.
Yeni bilim'in gelişmesiyle, geleneksel din biçimleri, giderek etkisini yitirmiş Avrupa'da, dinsel değerlerin yitirilmesi tehlikesi başgöstermiştir. Dostoyevski bu korkuyu şu ünlü tümcesinde dile getirmiştir: "Tanrı yoksa, her şey mümk�...
He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.
It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.
