“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”

“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”

“There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created or produced.”

“Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.”

“Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later.”

“...swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been”