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.

What is happening now is that the number of people who are not strong enough or do not feel strong enough to decide to live without the security provided by the community or the state, is going up.

The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.

With every death, a world is disappearing.

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.

It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.