The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

My generation those who were students in the late 60s was always, in the words of the Who, talking about our generation. That's what we thought of ourselves, as the most important thing since sliced bread. And the "we" that we meant was really the Western Europeans and American generation. And as I think back I suppose I have a sense of guilt on behalf of my generation, a sense that we were terribly provincial and didn't understand the really important stuff that was going on in Eastern Europe.