Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.