Human Nature

"God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn."

"Only by waging such a people's war can we defeat the national enemy. The Kuomintang has failed precisely because of its desperate opposition to a people's war."

"I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have don…"

"As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place."

"It is outrageous to live in a society whose laws tolerate sending young people to life in prison because they grew, or distributed, a dozen ounces of marijuana. I would hope that the good offices of y…"

"In the past, the Mongols and Tibetans were divided as lords and slaves, but the two chairmen , insisting on the principle of equality of all nationalities in our country, corrected the absurdity and a…"

"The Philip Roth Society"

"To follow and demonstrate the path of Truth, Simplicity and Love is man’s supreme duty and the highest Yoga. Diligent work is a quality of this path, for laziness is death on earth. Only by work can o…"

"One of the criticisms I've... gotten is "You're a reporter, what are you doing writing with a moral tone?" ...es, this is a book about political culture and morality. I cite, the Bible and as moral au…"

"As for "decadence," that is an eminently bourgeois swear-word for people perceived to be having more fun than you are."

"The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it."

"It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does."

"I may not be here to titillate, but I am not sorry if I have that edge. People aren't coming to the theaters to see me in a burqa"

"When people talk about 'the sanctity of the individual' they mean 'the sanctity of the statistical norm'."

"To not like is not the same as to hate. You don't like the Taliban, do you? We Brazilian people don't like homosexuals, but we don't persecute and hunt homosexuals."

"I knew what it was at last—the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was…"

"It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people."

"All around the world people are saying that we want to struggle to continue as global communities, to create a world free of xenophonbia and racism, a world from which poverty has been expunged, and t…"

"... the aggressive, occupying Zionist regime is not bound by the laws of society and of humanity. It takes no pity on men, children and women, and continues to kill and rape ."

"Do you know how many times, when I was a kid, going to Europe, having a Frenchman try to get on my case about Vietnam. And that wasn't the problem, do you know what it was like to have other kids, oth…"