Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some are thinking about suicide. They don't know if they will retain the beautiful house that they bought, or what will happen to the five family cars.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.