The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Capitalist production therefore develops technology and the combining together of various processes into a social whole only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society without any type of regulation at all you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything and then you'll have zero capitalism zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Economic progress in capitalist society means turmoil.

Yes all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society God has been relegated to the margin to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position back to center stage.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

If capitalism is to remain a healthy vibrant economic system corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society the female worker is the slave of that slave.

The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

What business has science and capitalism got bringing all these new inventions into the works before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core they want more empathic enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people including fundamentalists are quite intelligent many of them are highly educated and they should be treated with complete respect.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People afraid to oppose those fundamentalists shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion which is the source of fundamentalism.

Basically fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.