This god, this one word: I.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as "the right to enslave." A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but neither can do it by right.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.