Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.