Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

All human suffering concerns each human being.

I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.