Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.