If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

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.

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.