“Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.” NeedsHumansCountryStatesPoliticalEconomyRightsModernDemocraticProfoundHuman RightsProtectionOpeningOur CountryReformIdeologicalOpening UpPluralismMixed Economy Author:Andrei Sakharov
“The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.” EndsCountryStatesPoliticalSocialChallengesEconomicDramaUnionsHistoricalProfoundFinancialRussiaRuinsSovietSoviet Union Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.” SpiritualPoliticalBlackChurchLeaderKingsGayTraditionProfoundActivismRhetoricHostileLutherStaturePolitical RhetoricProfound Spiritual Author:Camille Paglia
“Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.” PoliticalSufferingOpportunityMajorsDiscoveryProfoundPhysicsMoodParticlesSpectacularParticle Physics Author:Leon M. Lederman
“A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?” GivingHumansCountryPoliticalValuesGainsTablesProfoundFinancialHuman LifeBroadsDeterminismPrecedence Author:William Greider
“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.” WorldBookRealPoliticalValuesGamesSocialEconomyIssuesPlayerEconomicInternetLaborInnovationProfoundChineseFraudSurprisingInflationEmergenceSyntheticEconomic IssuesSweatshops Author:Tim Harford
“Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.” BookPoliticalPowerfulClassSeriousEvolutionGeniusProfoundArtisticClassicInstantTreatmentMost PowerfulFlawsBiographiesScholarshipControversialJoyceArtistic Genius Author:Cornel West