Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta", function of the governments has become now to assure that it is the meetings between commodities and the consumers, and credit issuers and the borrowers, that regularly take place.

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.