If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.