In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.