The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

We didn't love freedom enough.