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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
Community is like a big family.
Madness is no madness when shared.
We are always confronted with choice.
Security without freedom means slavery.
With every death, a world is disappearing.
For one to be free there must be at least two.
We are already and will remain all in the same boat.
I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.
I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.
The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.
The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.
Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.
The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.
Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.
You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.
Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.
The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.
Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.
Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.
Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.
A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.
Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.
In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.
You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.
Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.
Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.
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.