A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.