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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.


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Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.



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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.



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Israel today is bad for the Jews.



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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.



If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants



If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.



Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.



Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.



the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.



As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.





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