“Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.”

C. K. Prahalad, cited in: David A. Aaker (2001), Strategic Market Management, p. 76

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

Speech given in Honduras, November 1998, following Hurricane Mitch

4 January 2014.
A9 TV addresses, 2014

1890s, Speech at the Abolitionist Reunion in Boston (1890)

Yet in belief, in the clarification of my philosophy, I had taken an important step. I no longer wavered between alternative views of the world, to be put on or taken off like alternative plays at the theatre. I now saw that there was only one possible play, the actual history of nature and of mankind, although there might well be ghosts among the characters and soliloquies among the speeches. Religions, all religions, and idealistic philosophies, all idealistic philosophies, were the soliloquies and the ghosts. They might be eloquent and profound. Like Hamlet's soliloquy they might be excellent reflective criticisms of the play as a whole. Nevertheless they were only parts of it, and their value as criticisms lay entirely in their fidelity to the facts, and to the sentiments which those facts aroused in the critic.

p. 169
Persons and Places (1944)

in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical