It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation.
I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.