"Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and h…"

"Shirk not these crises, hard and difficult though they may appear to be. Difficult they are. Forget not that the habi…"

"Unless such moments of crisis occur, the life simmers down to a general dead level and (even if useful) offers not th…"

"The creative crisis (for Humanity) has been made possible by three major happenings:"

"Our crises show us the ways in which our institutions have betrayed nature. We have equated the good life with materi…"

"We are at a very exciting moment in history, perhaps a turning point, said Ilya Prigogine, who won the 1977 Nobel pri…"

"In every age, said scientist-philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, man has proclaimed himself at a turning point in…"

"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. [...] …"

"Crisis is the mother of history. Beginning with Herodotus the urge to write history has been bound up with the need t…"

"Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortab…"