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

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.

The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.

It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks from bankruptcy and people from being evicted from their homes, is that this kind of life is unsustainable. We cannot go on like this... something must be done.

We are always confronted with choice.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.