All Quotes

Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day. ”

Unlike real relationships, virtual relationships are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff. ”

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. ”

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 task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of. ”

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. ”

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. ”

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. ”

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy. ”

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other. ”