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.

People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.