91 quotes
Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.
Living in Truth (1986)
The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
Every concession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
Disturbing the Peace (1986)
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.
Living in Truth (1986)
I think that it is my duty today to remind you as well of the good things that have happened, accomplishments that a year ago we could scarcely have imagined.
New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)
Full freedom of speech and expression prevails in our country, and freedom of assembly and association is guaranteed.
New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
Disturbing the Peace (1986)
We had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it.
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
It is clearly necessary to invent organizational structures appropriate to the present multicultural age. But such efforts are doomed to failure if they do not grow out of something deeper, out of generally held values.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Disturbing the Peace (1986)
Of course, in politics, just as anywhere else in life, it is impossible and it would not be sensible always to say everything bluntly. Yet that does not mean one has to lie. What is needed here are tact, instinct and good taste.
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Disturbing the Peace (1986)
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
People, your government has returned to you!
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. . .
Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)