All Human Suffering Concerns Each Human Being.

Ideology Is A Specious Way Of Relating To The World. It Offers Human Beings The Illusion Of An Identity, Of Dignity, And Of Morality While Making It Easier For Them To Part With Them.

A Person Who Has Been Seduced By The Consumer Value System, Whose Identity Is Dissolved In An Amalgam Of The Accouterments Trappings Of Mass Civilization, And Who Has No Roots In The Order Of Being, No Sense Of Responsibility For Anything Higher Than His Own Personal Survival, Is A Demoralized Person. The System Depends On This Demoralization, Deepens It, Is In Fact A Projection Of It Into Society.

There's A Dilemma Over How To Balance Concrete Economic Interests With Critical Opinions On The State Of Human Rights. It's The Human Rights That Suffer, And That's A Great Price To Pay.

If [western] Relations With Russia Are To Be Friendly, They Must Be Open And Sincere, Otherwise There Can Be No Friendship At All. That Means One Should Be Able To Speak Openly About Everything At Meetings And Conferences. It Shouldn't Be That We Can't Discuss The Killing Of Journalists In Russia, Or The Suppression Of Human Rights, Or All The Warning Signs Surfacing In Russia Because Of Oil And Gas Or Other Economic Reasons. It's A Big Problem, But It's The Same In Western Relations With Arab States.

I Personally Think President [hosni] Mubarak, Who's Done A Lot For Egypt, Should Acknowledge That His Time Has Come And Step Down Right Away.