"The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs."

"Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members."

"Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics. A great many young people lose faith in these dogmas at an age at which desp…"

"Millions upon millions of words have been written about the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages in order to bring about the creation of the Israeli state. And rightly so. Yet many of the v…"

"The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called “good fighting generals” of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life."