The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

Ser radical é tomar as coisas pela raiz. Mas, para o homem, a raiz é o próprio homem.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened femaleas both auspicious and dangerous.

Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

El hombre depresivo es el animal laborans que se explota a sí mismo voluntariamente, sin coacción externa.

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.