I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

You have to stop in order to change direction.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.