In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture