"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil."

“If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.”

Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders

“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

“I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else.”

“You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.”

“By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.”

“Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.”

Source : "The 25 Issues that Shape American Politics: Debates, Differences, and Divisions". Book by Michael Kryzanek and Ann K. Karreth, 2017.

“The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.”

“Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.”