When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

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.

I will sacrifice today for tomorrow.

I fear that moments of quietude are on the endangered list

Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities

A chain is as strong as its weakest link...........and a brain is as strong as its weakest think!

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

Caring is the essence of nursing.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.