It is not the place that makes the person, but the person who makes the place.
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
The most successful societies in the world are those that have managed to create a balance between the state, the market, and civil society.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.