“The mark of a healthy democracy is the preference for argument rather than invective. Those are the roots the left must reclaim.”

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.”

“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”

“Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.”

“People prefer to listen to Stories…
rather than to Facts.”

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”

“He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.”

“Those who have a spark of self-respect left, prefer open defiance, prefer crime to the emaciated, degraded position of poverty.”

“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”

“A dignified man prefers to be feared and respected rather than being loved”