"There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow."

“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”

“I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

“A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.”

“I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.”

“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”

Source : Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House

“There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is entrepreneurial, that has a strong private sector in which religious faith is respected and even nourished, in which there's vigorous debate across the spectrum, and in which our universities teach real history instead of propaganda. Certainly the decline of America is a choice, though the outcome is not foreordained. But liberty is also a choice, and I'm doing my best to persuade the people of America to make the latter choice.”

“I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.”

Source : "Nicki Minaj: Making Minaj (2010 Cover Story)". Complex interview, www.complex.com. October/November 2010.

“England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.”