Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.