What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

Power is paradoxical.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.