The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

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

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.