Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.