But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead?a dead parent, for example?can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23,...

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. Jascha Heifetz

It takes a village to raise an idiot. William Dukane

The end of all education should surely be service to others. Cesar E. Chavez

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions. Jose Antonio Burciaga

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine, “Age of Reason”

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the...

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr