What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

I need you because I love you.

Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.