Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

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

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

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.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again.