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

The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.