The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick.
Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
A sort of angry populism here in the UK and across Europe, a sort of anti-political mood and what then steps into that place? In one episode [of Black Mirror] you won't have seen, there's a very simple gaming gadget that turns out to be a monstrous idea, which I suspect we will end up doing for real.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.
What's extreme today will not be extreme tomorrow.
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.
America can't go sideways anymore.
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job.
One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
civilization is a transient sickness.
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
