The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society