The Cliché Organizes Life; It Expropriates People's

The Most Important Thing Is That Man Should Be The Measure Of All Structures, Including Economic Structures, And Not That Man Be Made To Measure For Those Structures. The Most Important Thing Is Not To Lose Sight Of Personal Relationships - I.e., The Relationships Between Man And His Co-workers, Between Subordinates And Their Superiors, Between Man And His Work, Between This Work And Its Consequences.

People Who Live In The Post-totalitarian System Know Only Too Well That The Question Of Whether One Or Several Political Parties Are In Power, And How These Parties Define And Label Themselves, Is Of Far Less Importance Than The Question Of Whether Or Not It Is Possible To Live Like A Human Being.

My Dear Fellow Citizens: For Forty Years You Have Heard From My Predecessors On This Day Different Variations Of The Same Theme: How Our Country Flourished, How Many Millions Of Tons Of Steel We Produced, How Happy We All Were, How We Trusted Our Government, And What Bright Perspectives Were Unfolding In Front Of Us. I Assume You Did Not Propose Me For This Office So That I, Too, Would Lie To You.

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 Question Is Wholly Other, Deeper And Equally Relevant To All: Whether We Shall, By Whatever Means, Succeed In Reconstituting The Natural World As The True Terrain Of Politics, Rehabilitating The Personal Experience Of Human Beings As The Initial Measure Of Things, Placing Morality Above Politics And Responsibility Above Our Desires, In Making Human Community Meaningful, In Returning Content To Human Speech, In Reconstituting, As The Focus Of All Social Action, The Autonomous, Integral, And Dignified Human "i."