“I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.”
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“Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.”
“I believe social media is a powerful tool to transform our planet.”
“Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.”
“The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.”
“Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.”
“Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded.”
“It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.”
“Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.”
“You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.”
“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
“Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.”
“When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.”
“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.”
“No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.”
“The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.”
“The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom, staying behind the sets and choosing the last place! Why is the way of Jesus worth choosing? Because it is the way to the Kingdom, the way Jesus took, and the way that brings everlasting life.”
“The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.”
“A black belt doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the journey.”
“Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction.”