The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.