The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

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

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.