... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.