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

As long as we say: "Alright, it is truth for me, and I believe in it and I am ready to fight for it, but I accept that others have different beliefs - and so let me have a closer look at what they believe" - we can gain from our intercourse thanks to our difference, not despite our difference.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

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.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.