The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

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.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned.