On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.