8 quotes
I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality.
We the People interview (1996)
Friendship in the Greek tradition, in the Roman tradition, in the old tradition, was always viewed as the highest point which virtue can reach.
We the People interview (1996)
Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated.
We the People interview (1996)
I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life to be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship.
We the People interview (1996)
Inevitably modern technology has polarized society. It has polluted the environment.
We the People interview (1996)
Pupil, puppet, person, eye. It is not my mirror.
We the People interview (1996)
This breaking of the limitations of hospitality to a small in-group, of offering it to the broadest possible in-group, and saying, you determine who your guest is, might be taken as the key message of Christianity.
We the People interview (1996)
I can choose. I have to choose. I have to make my mind up whom I will take into my arms, to whom I will lose myself, whom I will treat as that vis-a-vis, that face into which I look, which I lovingly touch with my fingering gaze, from whom I accept being who I am as a gift.
We the People interview (1996)